BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) represent two of the greatest health threats in African prisons. In 2010, collaboration between the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, the Zambia Prisons Service, and the National TB Program established a TB and HIV screening program in six Zambian prisons. We report data on the prevalence of TB and HIV in one of...

Introduction In 2013, the Zambian Correctional Service (ZCS) partnered with the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia on the Zambian Prisons Health System Strengthening project, seeking to tackle structural, organisational and cultural weaknesses within the prison health system. We present findings from a nested evaluation of the project impact on high, mid-level and facility-level h...

As part of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms, 70 ‘local’ prisons in England and Wales were re-designated as resettlement prisons, order to provide additional through-the-gate support individuals serving short sentences. Drawing on staff prisoner interviews one case study prison, this article considers what challenges involved with implementing a culture local prison. Findings first outlin...

The number of older adults with dementia in U.S. prisons is rapidly rising. Yet, the vast majority of this marginalized subgroup of the aging population is left neglected behind bars without access to adequate medical and mental health care services. We assert that proactive, interdisciplinary collaborative efforts to improve practice, policy, and research and to develop a high-quality evidence...

This paper reports on a two year project, undertaken between 2008 and 2010 across three male prisons, two of which were adult and one young offender institution. Principles of action research and appreciative inquiry were adopted to work with action learning groups across all three prisons to support the implementation of clinical supervision, undertake a training needs analysis, develop resear...

BACKGROUND Prison conditions can favor the spread of tuberculosis (TB). This study aimed to evaluate in a Brazilian prison: the performance and accuracy of smear, culture and Detect-TB; performance of smear plus culture and smear plus Detect-TB, according to different TB prevalence rates; and the cost-effectiveness of these procedures for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) diagnosis. METHODS This p...

In August 2012, the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) was notified of gastrointestinal illness outbreaks in two Arkansas state prisons. ADH investigated the outbreaks and conducted case-control studies to identify the source of the illnesses. This report describes the results of these investigations, which identified 528 persons with onset of diarrhea during August 2-18, 2012. Results from th...

The Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020 was a problem Indonesia. To protect prisoners during pandemic, it is necessary to make regulations related assimilation programs for prisoners. This research combines normative and empirical by studying norms relating the terms procedures granting inmates looking directly at implementation of Class IIA Gorontalo Prison. results study show that program regulat...

Libraries have existed in French prisons since the mid-nineteenth century, and for more than a century the French Penitentiary Administration has made an effort to structure and organize them as well as to monitor what books are made available to inmates. The role and impact of these libraries has evolved slowly over time, and over the years central control was gradually relaxed. In the early 1...