Benzodiazepines (antianxiety medications) and quetiapine (an antipsychotic medication) are subject to abuse in prison. Quetiapine is also expensive and has serious side effects. The prescription of these medications in prison for anxiety and insomnia is not the preferred choice. In order to reduce these prescriptions, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-University Correctiona...

Despite the dissemination of principles of medical ethics in prisons, formulated and advocated by numerous international organizations, health care professionals in prisons all over the world continue to infringe these principles because of perceived or real dual loyalty to patients and prison authorities. Health care professionals and nonmedical prison staff need greater awareness of and train...

OBJECTIVE The study explores whether auricular acupuncture can be a viable treatment form for inmates in prison psychiatric units. METHOD Inmates in a prison psychiatric unit and in a support unit for violent behavior were offered group treatment with auricular acupuncture three times a week over a period of 9 months. Another prison psychiatric unit served as a control group. RESULTS Twenty...

OBJECTIVES to analyze the epidemiologic and clinical aspects of intestinal parasitosis in prisoners at the prison in Ouagadougou (MACO). MATERIALS AND METHODS cross-sectional study from November 2009 to January 2010, including a survey to determine the risk factors and clinical signs of intestinal parasitosis. It also included laboratory examination of feces samples from 403 prisoners, by dir...

In the work of a remand prison the diagnosis of mental conditions is of considerable importance. When there is reason for the opinion that a prisoner who is on remand or awaiting trial is insane or mentally deficient, it is important that the court should be informed of this fact, as it is undesirable for several reasons that he should be convicted and sentenced to imprisonment. He would prove ...

The majority of the states in the USA have a process to project prison populations for the purpose of planning adequate capacity. Typical time series methods are ineffective because they do not take into account factors like sentence length, prior criminal history, revocations of community supervision, and legislative changes. Discrete event simulation has proven to be a viable alternative. The...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen, hepatitis C virus, and HIV in entrants to Irish prisons and to examine risk factors for infection. DESIGN Cross sectional, anonymous survey, with self completed risk factor questionnaire and oral fluid specimen for antibody testing. SETTING Five of seven committal prisons in the Republic of Ireland. PARTICIP...

BACKGROUND Dual substance dependence and psychiatric and psychological morbidities are overrepresented in prison populations and associated with reoffending. In the context of an increasing prison population in Australia, investigating the needs of vulnerable people in prison with a dual diagnosis can help inform in-prison screening and treatment and improve prison and community service integra...

Background: Majority of prison inmates live in poor living conditions. Lack of meaningful activity, endemic substance abuse, recurrent violence and sexual exploitation, loss of freedom, separation from family and friends, uncertainty about the future, and the traumas of prison life all contribute to making living in prison a stressful experience. Prison inmates usually apply inappropriate copin...

Nurses who go to work in prisons begin their new career without having had any specific preparation for this unique and diverse role. The demands placed upon nurses are unlike any they will have experienced in their previous clinical posts. The work of a nurse in prison contains elements of both mental health nursing and practice nursing. The context in which this nursing occurs means that the ...