The Conjugal Visit at Mississippi State Penitentiary

The penitentiary visit--a new role for geriatricians?

The number of older prisoners is increasing and, with reforms in the prison health service, there is a requirement to provide equity of access to standard healthcare services. The health of older prisoners is often poor, with high levels of psychiatric and physical illnesses, compounded by poor access to appropriate rehabilitation and resettlement services. A recent case presenting to our depar...

AIMS: Assisted Indexing at Mississippi State

In this report, we describe the development of an automated system that aids human document analysts in the assignment of indexes to journal articles in the area of physical chemistry. AIMS (Assisted Indexing at Mississippi State) has two major components: a natural language processing (NLP) component and an index generation (IG) component. This report provides an overview of each component. Th...

The Scurvy Scandal at Millbank Penitentiary: A Reassessment

Historical myths die hard: one such is of a supposed outbreak of scurvy—said by some to be the result of medical insouciance—at Millbank penitentiary in 1823. Thus, Sean McConville in his masterly account of prisons in the reform period writes: ‘‘The decision [to reduce the diet] was a major factor in the scurvy epidemic which followed shortly afterwards, causing at least thirty deaths’’. Other...

Criminal and Ethical Policy of the State Penitentiary Organization in Relation to Economic Violations

Background: The relationship between ethics and politics is a subject that is closely related to the philosophy of politics on the one hand and sociology on the other. But it is very difficult to put the two together because politics belongs to the realm of power and domination, and the politician does not involve himself too much in moral concepts that are cumbersome for his purposes in order ...

Classification of Felons in a Mid-Western State Penitentiary