Trouble has been brewing for the past year within the state's correctional system. A series of inmate suicides in state prisons and in county detention centers has drawn adverse publicity about the provision (or lack) of mental health services to inmates. These incidents most often occur in minimum security prisons or in detention centers while prisoners are awaiting trial. The Legislative Comm...

Health care within jails and prisons in the United States is typically insufficient to meet the medical and psychological needs of female inmates. Health services are often of low quality, especially in the areas of reproductive medicine. Mental illness, substance abuse, a trauma history, and sexual victimization while incarcerated can predict a more difficult adjustment to a correctional envir...

background: exposure to job stress causes deleterious effects on physical and mental health of employees and productivity of organizations. objective: to study work-related stressors among employees of prisons of ilam, western iran. methods: in a cross-sectional study conducted from july to october 2013, 177 employees of ilam prisons and security-corrective measures organization were enrolled i...

This research had two main components: an interview, survey and observation based study of senior managers in public and private sector corrections, and a mainly ethnographic study of four matched public and private sector prisons (and three additional establishments). The main objectives were: to provide rigorous empirical evidence about the relative quality and effectiveness of public versus ...

Supermaximum (“supermax”) security prisons have become a common feature of the corrections landscape. Despite their substantial costs, questions about their constitutionality, growing fiscal and managerial challenges confronting correctional systems, and increased demand for evidence-based practices, little systematic empirical research about their effectiveness exists. Against this backdrop an...

Implementation of a treatment protocol for prescribing stimulant medications in adult prisons where such a protocol and oversight did not previously exist is prudent management, clinically relevant, and appropriate. There are multiple challenges to using controlled substances in correctional settings, many of them a consequence of the very high prevalence of substance use disorders among inmate...