Training Prison Staff on Issues of Young Prisoners’ Health Needs
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Prison staff and the health promoting prison.
PURPOSE This paper aims to discuss some of the obstacles to implementing policy and strategy related to health promoting prisons. It focuses on the role of prison officers and raises issues concerning their conditions of service, training and organisational culture in a situation where the prison system faces security issues, overcrowding and high levels of ill health among prisoners. DESIGN/...
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عنوان ژورنال: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1877-0428
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.07.668