Purpose. This paper is a survey examining beliefs about cues to deception held by prison inmates, prison personnel and students. In line with the ideas about more beneŽ cial learning structures in the environment of criminals and Ž ndings from previous studies, we predicted that the beliefs held by prison inmates would be most consistent with the general pattern found in studies examining objec...

Key points • Prisoners are often considered geriatric at the age of 50 or 55 years. • Plans should be made for the increasing use of health care services and medical care costs in the light of the growing number of older prisoners. • Consideration should be given to developing a geriatric, team-based model of care for older prisoners, particularly those with multimorbidity. • The medication lis...

John Topp, who died on 23 February 2016, was a Principal Medical Officer who was one of the first to draw attention to the increased rate of suicide among the prison population. In the late 1970s, he showed that suicide was three times as common in prisoners as in the general population, that it was most common in those with sentences longer than 18 months and that the greatest risk was in the ...