As part of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms, 70 ‘local’ prisons in England and Wales were re-designated as resettlement prisons, order to provide additional through-the-gate support individuals serving short sentences. Drawing on staff prisoner interviews one case study prison, this article considers what challenges involved with implementing a culture local prison. Findings first outlin...

This study evaluated customer reviews about The Clink restaurants to understand how they are rated and what experience is gained by fine dining in a prison. Charity runs training four U.K. prisons aims change attitudes transform lives through prisoner rehabilitation. research used an interpretive case of the evaluate online posted on TripAdvisor. In total, 3951 were analysed using Leximancer 5....

Previous studies indicate that autistic individuals can experience increased distress in prison, leading to significant disruption the prison regime and difficulties rehabilitation (Allely 2015; Allen et al. 2008). This exploratory study investigates autism knowledge training needs among officers. Current understanding, possible content a strategy for implementation of officers are all explored...

COVID-19 is ravaging US prisons. Prison residents and staff must be prioritized for vaccination, but a rapidly mutating virus high rates of continued spread require an urgent, coordinated public health response. Based on knowledge accumulated from the pandemic thus far, we have identified 10 pressing priorities responding to in prisons: (1) accelerate population reduction coupled with community...

This research examined the effect of prison population densities (PPD) on inmate-inmate prison violence rates (PVR) in Japan using one-year-interval time-series data (1972-2006). Cointegration regressions revealed a long-run equilibrium relationship between PPD and PVR. PPD had a significant and increasing effect on PVR in the long-term. Error correction models showed that in the short-term, th...

he findings and directives issued by the President’s Commission (2002) regarding the development of a system that is consumer and family driven have led many states and their partners to increase their efforts to involve consumers along a continuum of core activities for justice-involved consumers. Jail diversion and prison reentry programs have been at the forefront in integrating consumers in...

In this study, 242 randomly selected male offenders who were receiving psychiatric treatment in prison were administered psychological and neuropsychological evaluations and were followed during their treatment in a prison psychiatric hospital. Offenders who harmed themselves in treatment were compared to those who did not harm themselves. Eighteen percent of offenders harmed themselves, the se...

This study examined the proportion of men and women reporting previous traumatic brain injury (TBI) in an Ontario (Canada) prison sample by demographic characteristics; adverse life experiences; and criminal, drug, and alcohol use history. Using data from The Cost of Substance Abuse in Canada study based on a random sample from four Ontario prisons, this study found 50.4% of males and 38% of fe...

The risk of sexual misconduct by forensic professionals appears at first glance to be far less than the risk of sexual misconduct by other clinical professionals. Yet, Faulkner and Regehr's article draws our attention to the unique and intriguing situation of females working in forensic settings and the very real risk of their engaging in sexual misconduct with male prisoners. The female worker...