PRISONS AND THE PUBLIC

Prisons and public health

Hepatitis C virus (HCv) is inCreasingly a serious health issue for people living with HIV in the developed world, where more than 30% of HIV-positive individuals are also estimated to be infected with HCV. Untreated, HIV/HCV co-infection accelerates the progression to cirrhosis and its many complications. Unfortunately, the treatment of HCV in the setting of HIV is also associated with lower re...

Quality of Operations at Private and Public Prisons: Using Trends in Inmate Misconduct to Compare Prisons

A model-based approach was used to develop performance measures from inmate misconduct data to compare public and private prisons. The performance measures indicated the impact of different prisons upon raising or lowering the probability of inmate misconduct. Data for all misconduct and two categories of misconduct, violent and drug, were generated for the 36 month period between January of 19...

Tuberculosis in Prisons: a Growing Public Health Challenge

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

Prisons and the Mentally Defective

Deficiency Act. Under Section 9 of the Act, 23 persons found to be mentally defective were removed from prison to Certified Institutions. In the years 1924-27, the average annual number of prisoners certified as M.D. was 257; in the years 1928-34, the annual average was 251; the amended definitions in the M.D. Act of 1927 appear therefore to have little practical effect, so far as this particul...