Juvenile detention facilities have come under increasing legal pressure to provide mental health services to detainees, and mental health clinicians may be asked to design and implement programs in detention facilities. However, there is little consensus on what types of services should be provided, and virtually no data on the effectiveness of such services in a detention setting. The objectiv...

Caribbean food imports often face detentions and refusals by the US resulting in a major loss of income. In this paper, we consider a classification procedure based on transvariation probabilities to correctly identify cases that lead to food detention. This is based upon several background variables on fourteen Latin American and Caribbean countries. A method for selecting variables according ...

A recently calibrated urban runoff model, the Source Loading and Management Model (SLAMM), is used to compare the cost-effectiveness of using source area and regional stormwater treatment practices. The demonstration is done for the totally urbanized Lake Wingra watershed in Madison, Wisconsin. The goal is to retrofit practices that are able to reduce the annual total suspended solids load by 4...

15 years after Brazil adopted one of Latin America's most progressive juvenile justice laws, substantially reflecting the guarantees contained in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the country's juvenile detention centres continue to be grossly deficient. Many facilities are decaying, filthy, and dangerously overcrowded, failing to meet basic standards of health and hygiene (se...

Detention of irregular migrants awaiting deportation is widely practiced in many countries and has been shown to have profound negative impact on health and well-being of detainees. Detention staff, an integral part of the detention environment, affect and are affected by detainees' health and well-being. The objective of the study was to explore experiences of staff working at Swedish immigrat...

The optimal detention policy for juvenile delinquents presents a challenge to the criminal justice system, which must balance the well-being of the community with that of the juvenile. Detention is often used as a way to protect the community by preventing a juvenile from committing more crimes while awaiting adjudication of the juvenile’s current criminal offense. Detention may however adverse...

A low impact (dispersed) design demonstrates how small alterations to parking lots can reduce runoff and pollutant loads. Storm runoff was treated as soon as rain hit the ground by encorporating a network of swales, strands and a small wet detention pond into the overall design (Figure 1). When the volume of water discharged from all the different elements to the treatment train (the swales, th...

As the total number of persons held within the U.S. immigration detention system has grown, the number of detained persons with severe mental illnesses has grown correspondingly. Reports issued by the government, legal and human rights advocates, and the media have brought to light a problematic and growing detention system with pervasive legal and mental health care disparities. Described are ...

Puthoopparambil, S. J. 2016. Life in Immigration Detention Centers. An exploration of health of immigrant detainees in Sweden and three other EU member states. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1176. 96 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9468-1. Governments around the world use immigration detention to detain and depo...