BACKGROUND Violence among released prisoners with psychosis is an important public health problem. It is unclear whether treatment in prison can influence criminal behaviour subsequent to release. AIMS To investigate whether treatment in prison can delay time to reoffending. METHOD Our sample consisted of 1717 adult prisoners in England and Wales convicted of a serious violent or sexual off...

UNLABELLED There have been concerns that individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are over-represented but not recognised in prison populations. A screening tool for ASDs in prisons has therefore been developed. AIMS We aimed to evaluate this tool in Scottish prisoners by comparing scores with standard measures of autistic traits (Autism Quotient (AQ)), neurodevelopmental history (As...

PROBLEM In Malaysia, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is highly concentrated among people who inject opioids. For this reason, the country undertook a three-phase roll-out of a methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programme. In Phase 3, described in this paper, MMT was implemented within prisons and retention in care was assessed. APPROACH After developing standard operating proc...

BACKGROUND Given the high prevalence of mental health problems among prisoners, knowledge on its determinants is important. Prior cross-sectional studies suggest that procedurally just treatment within prison is a significant predictor; however, longitudinal research is lacking. AIM The aims of this study were to examine (1) the longitudinal relationship between prisoners' perceptions of proc...

High rates of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV are believed to exist in Russian prisons. Prisoners with TB were studied in order to identify the following: 1) prevalence of HIV, and risk factors for HIV and other blood-borne virus infections; and 2) clinical and social factors that might compromise TB treatment effectiveness and/or patient adherence and, hence, encourage treatment failure. A 1-yr cros...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) has a significant global health burden with an estimated 2%-3% of the world's population infected, and more than 350,000 dying annually from HCV-related conditions including liver failure and liver cancer. Prisons potentially offer a relatively stable environment in which to commence treatment as they usually provide good access to health care provid...

Abstract Background Early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces the development acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), non-AIDS related comorbidities and mortality, prevents transmission. However, prevalence delayed ART amongst prisoners in sub-Saharan African countries is high contributing factors to this are relatively unknown. Methods Qualitative interviewing was employed un...