In Britain doctors and others concerned with the treatment of offenders in prison may consult the Butler Report (see Focus, pp 157) and specialist journals, but these sources are concerned with the system in Britain only. In America the situation is different, both in organization and in certain attitudes. Dr Peter L Sissons has therefore provided a companion article to that of Dr Paul Bowden (...

Prison staff, in order to ensure a good image of the system which they work, respect certain rules that are stipulated laws, orders, regulations and other normative acts. From these acts results some internal institution called labor discipline. This represents an extremely important legal law. It is even more for prison workforce. The reason simple: prisons structures designed protect law, soc...

Criminologists and correctional practitioners worry that prisons encourage criminal behavior among inmates, i.e., that prisons are criminogenic. The current study analyzed a subset of the experimental data collected by Berk, Ladd, Graziano, and Baek (2003) to test a new inmate classification system in California and demonstrated that this effect does not necessarily exist. There were 561 male i...

This essay is a conversation between two doctoral students interested in themes of queer and queering the prison. We cover issues ranging from LGBTQ+ social exclusion to housing trans prisoners within gendered prison service, all while negotiating our different backgrounds experiences topics. The delves into idea “change” complexities challenging system, whether that old Victorian buildings, in...

The high prevalence of HIV infection and drug dependence among prisoners, combined with the sharing of injecting drug equipment, make prisons a high-risk environment for the transmission of HIV. Ultimately, this contributes to HIV epidemics in the communities to which prisoners return on their release. We reviewed the effectiveness of interventions to reduce injecting drug use risk behaviours a...

Prisoners have significantly greater levels of drug use than the general population, which is related to many adverse outcomes both during and post-imprisonment. Reducing availability drugs in prison can lead a reduction prisoners but requires knowledge different smuggling routes implementation effective security measures. The main identified literature are through visitors; mail; on reception,...