336 June 2012, Vol. 102, No. 6 SAMJ Imprisonment and torture of doctors in Bahrain To the Editor: During the months of February and March 2011, as part of the ‘Arab Spring’, protest action and demonstrations took place in Manama, capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain. When the authorities sought to put down the action, many protesters were injured and some died of their injuries. Those who were inj...

Although much research considers the relationship between imprisonment and mortality, little existing research has tested whether the short-term mortality advantage enjoyed by prisoners extends to Hispanics. We compared the mortality rates of non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic male and female state prisoners to mortality rates in the general population using data from the Deat...

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The study investigated the effects of time spent in prison and quality of life before prison on male, federally sentenced prisoners’ adaptations to imprisonment, controlling for sentence length and prison security level. Data consisted of responses on a self-administered survey completed by 712 prisoners. Findings tended to support the independent effects of the indigenous (deprivation) and imp...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders with lifelong impact of the affected individuals. It is usually co-morbid with other psychiatric disorders. This paper aims to review current knowledge about ADHD in imprisoned individuals. The rate of ADHD in prisoners ranges from 10% to 70% and it has been suggested that ADHD, even without co-mo...

in order to protect individual and society from deviations and indecent activities, there are appropriate penal laws like hadd and ta’ zir in quran and traditions to halter administrative violators and social corrupters. in this regard, imprisonment in different forms has been considered as one of correctional punishments in narratives texts of shiite and sunnite. this article submits not only ...