Prison systems are rarely gender sensitive, and are even less so in conflict situations. When women are detained, it is crucial that international standards, applied with sensitivity to women’s particular needs, are brought to bear. This article gives an overview of the relevant international law, as well as the gender-specific considerations that need to be taken into account when implementing...

• In Australia, immigration policy is to incarcerate those seeking asylum in order to deter others from coming. • Within this environment, health care providers frequently experience “dual loyalty” conflict, whereby they cannot serve the interests of both their patients and their employers. • The ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) would allow for dom...

In 2003, Mana Golzari was a medical student at Stanford working at a juvenile detention medical center. She was struck by the poor health status of the incarcerated youth. Nationally, more than 2 million children and adolescents pass through juvenile detention each year, and they have substantially higher morbidity than their nonincarcerated peers. (1) Despite a 2001 American Academy of Pediatr...

Abstract This is the first detailed examination of compulsory detention for ‘drug treatment’ through lens a rapidly evolving international legal framework. It estimated that as many half million people worldwide are detained purpose treatment’, held months or years at time without being charged criminally able to challenge legality their detention. therefore key issue sitting intersection human...

The issue of detention as a public health control measure has attracted attention recently. This is because the threat of strains of tuberculosis that are resistant to a wider range of drugs has been identified, and there is renewed concern that public health is threatened. This paper considers whether involuntary detention is justified where voluntary measures have failed or where a patient po...

Detention ponds are currently accepted as stormwater best management practices (BMPs) in coastal South Carolina. These ponds are typical catch basins for stormwater piped directly from impervious surfaces in many residential and resort areas. Nutrients often concentrate in the ponds and contribute to eutrophication within the ponds and downgradient estuaries. A supplementary BMP is proposed tha...