I HAVE SEEN a lot of this country’s natural disasters, having lived through hurricanes in Long Island, New York, snowstorms in Albany, New York, and tornadoes in Birmingham, Alabama. However, nothing could prepare me for the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where I am the medical director for a long-term juvenile correctional facility, the damage from Hurricane K...

Adam Graycar Director This paper discusses trends in the incarceration of women and intervention programs available to women in prison. The data demonstrate that incarceration rates for women have been increasing over the last decade and that women are often imprisoned for property, violence and drug offences. Correctional facilities in Australia, in common with many other jurisdictions, admini...

PURPOSE To identify and describe the relevant issues and difficulties associated with provision of antiretroviral therapy in correctional facilities. METHOD We performed a review and analysis of currently available literature and experiences on antiretroviral treatment (ART) in the prison setting. RESULTS Antiretroviral therapy is administered to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected ...

In the past thirty years, treatment in correctional facilities has been severely criticized. Many studies, including meta-analyses, have emphasized the low efficacy of correctional treatment. The efficacy of correctional treatment (and every kind of treatment) is related to the three main questions. The first is a clear definition of the features that have to be the object of treatment the seco...

The aims of this study were to establish the prevalence of psychotropic drug use, measure the association between job strain, extrinsic efforts-rewards ratio, interpersonal violence and psychotropic drug use among officers working in correctional facilities in the province of Quebec in Canada. This study also examined if interpersonal violence at work is an intermediate factor in the causal cha...