The aim of this study was to investigate whether clinical findings are consistent with research indicating a high prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among prison inmates. Forty-three male inmates who were referred for ADHD assessment at the health service in Bergen prison participated. Although most of them reported symptoms in accordance with ADHD both in childhood a...

OBJECTIVE To analyze physical victimization in the prison population, taking into account the existence of some kind of mental illness, in the prison of Albolote (Granada). METHODS 270 inmates conducted an anonymous and voluntary survey about victimization. RESULTS 36.7% of all inmates suffered some form of physical victimization in prison. 62.2% of participants consider that they have anxi...

Methods and results Geneva prison (for men and women) has 300 beds and serves as a remand prison and for short and medium term sentences. One fifth of the prisoners are dependent on opiates at entry. For our study we cross checked prison medical records with medicolegal necropsv reports in the Canton of Geneva. During 1982-6, 102 sudden deaths among former prisoners were recorded, of which a la...

• Inmates continue to use drugs in prison. The most common identified avenue of trafficking remains the visitor reception area, by mouth transfer during contact visits. More drugs, syringes and other implements are seized in prison than at the 'visitor' barrier. • Qualitative data suggest that cannabis and pharmaceuticals are the most commonly used or available drugs. Urinalysis data show some ...

One week of solitary confinement of prison inmates produced significant changes in their EEG frequency and visual evoked potentials (VEP) that parallel those reported in laboratory studies of sensory deprivation. EEG frequency declined in a nonlinear manner over the period. VEP latency, which decreased with continued solitary confinement, was shorter for these 5s than for control 5s whose VEP l...

Evaluating suicide prevention activities is a complex task, and in a prison environment, the complexity increases when an effort is made to determine who is responsible for the suicide the individual or the prison system. This is assuming that the prison system, in itself generates suicide and is primarily responsible.(1) Although the system is not blameless, it is not necessarily a causal fact...

In this commentary, we discuss the main findings of the research study by Gunter et al., "The Frequency of Mental Health and Addictive Disorders Among 320 Men and Women Entering the Iowa Prison System: Use of the MINI-PLUS." This commentary provides an overview on the use of standardized assessments with prison populations; prevalence rates of mental and addictive disorders within prisons; subs...

Suicide prevention training for the prison service in England and Wales has been criticized. STORM is a package emphasizing the practice and review of interactions with suicidal persons and was evaluated in a pilot study for use in prisons. Trainees completed questionnaires immediately before and after training and at 6 to 8 months follow-up. Training significantly improved attitudes, knowledge...

Attempted Sodomy on a Child (3 to Life) The following is an analysis of the charging patterns of mandatory prison sex offenses established under Senate Bill 26 (Crime Penalty Adjustments) passed by the Utah Legislature in 1996. Adjacent is a listing of these mandatory prison sex offenses. Senate Bill 26 eliminated mandatory minimum sentencing for sex offenses against children. This legislation ...

The aim was to investigate the role of age, drug abuse, period of confinement, loneliness, difficulty in controlling emotions, having no friends in prison, victimization in prison, guilt over crimes, insomnia, nightmares, anxiety, depression, and mood change in predicating suicide attempts in a sample of homicidal young prisoners. Poisson regression model indicated that five variables contribut...