This study aims to identify the work stress of nurses in Correctional Institutions (LP). The method used is a systematic review by searching articles on Proquest, Pubmed and ScienceDirect databases with keywords "occupational stress" AND "correctional facilities". results show that nurses' correctional institutions closely related environment factors, prison inmate population management. In con...

The burden of hepatitis C is much higher in corrections compared to the general community. In the late 1990’s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that 16% to 40% of prison inmates were seropositive for hepatitis C, with extrapolated rates of chronic hepatitis C infection ranging from 12 to 35%. More recent estimates are slightly lower with an average seroprevalence o...

Correctional populations are disproportionately affected by conditions that affect cognition, such as psychiatric illness and head trauma. Honoring bioethical principles in the care of such patients can be particularly difficult in the correctional setting. However, the approach should not change markedly because a patient is incarcerated. That is, the same standards of respecting patient auton...

A humane and fair treatment of prisoners is of intrinsic value in itself, and is generally acclaimed to reduce prisoners' psychological distress and misconduct in prison, and their criminal behavior after release from prison. To create a more just prison climate, scholars have emphasized the importance of correctional staff. However, there is a lack of empirical research on the relationship bet...

The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991) is a relatively new personality assessment showing much promise in forensic and correctional settings. The present review examines correlations and effect sizes from a list of studies (n = 17) utilizing the PAI in these areas in order to provide concurrent validity with other psychological measures in the categories of (1) mental and perso...

Background: Identifying the status of substance misuse and its psychosocial correlates among residents of juvenile correctional centers, as a high risk group, could potentially illuminate the roadmap to prevention of drug use in this group. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 93 individuals aged 13 to 18 were enrolled. A self-administered questionnaire was completed and dropped in a sealed ...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic search of the literature for studies that estimated the prevalence/incidence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in correctional systems in different countries and, based on these data, to estimate a) the number of people with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)/FASD within the criminal justice system population, and b) the relat...

OBJECTIVES To describe the issues encountered during the implementation of an indoor smoking ban in prison and its effects on self-reported tobacco use, perceived exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) and perceived health status of inmates in Quebec's provincial correctional facilities. METHODS Quantitative data were obtained from 113 inmates in three provincial correctional facilities in the p...

This review examined the interactions between the correctional system and the health of urban populations. Cities have more poor people, more people of color, and higher crime rates than suburban and rural areas; thus, urban populations are overrepresented in the nation’s jails and prisons. As a result, US incarceration policies and programs have a disproportionate impact on urban communities, ...