OBJECTIVES To describe the problems faced by children during separation from their imprisoned mothers, and evaluate the health of children who accompanied their mothers into prison. DESIGN A prospective observational study. SETTING Welikada Prison, Colombo, Sri Lanka. METHODS 200 randomly selected mothers who had left their children at home were interviewed using a questionnaire. During a...

PURPOSE To describe the prevalence and nature of epileptic seizure disorders in a typical UK prison and compare the care offered to prisoners to the recommendations of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). METHODS Over a 14-month period, all prisoners identified as having epilepsy were registered by prison primary healthcare services at a category 'C' prison holding 640 male ...

The growth of the prison system over the last three decades represents a critical institutional intervention in the lives of American families. The massive buildup in the size of the penal population has not been due to large scale changes in crime or criminality. Instead, a host of changes at the local, state, and federal levels with respect to law enforcement and penal policy are implicated i...

This article resumes part of the doctoral research titled The social pedagogical effectiveness of imprisonmentII, which was conducted from 1997 to 2001 in the Postgraduate Program in Education at Universidade de São Paulo and defended on August 21st, 2001. The pertinence of reflecting again on the subject is due to the approval of the National Guidelines for Education in Prison Facilities, Reso...

In the criminal career literature, prison is usually viewed as an interruption of offending. Little research has applied the criminal career perspective to misconduct committed by prisoners. The current study used official data from a probability sample of 1,005 inmates from the southwestern United States to examine offending careers during incarceration. Descriptive and negative binomial regre...

Parole outcomes for California Department of Corrections parolees who had voluntarily learned the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique while incarcerated at Folsom Prison, Deuel Vocational Institution, and San Quentin Prison in California were compared to parole outcomes for nonmeditating parolees matched for offense, prior commitment record, age, ethnic group, institution, and parole year....

This article investigates the multivariate relationship between personal characteristics of prison staff, their work rank within the organizational hierarchy, working conditions, constraints of personal accomplishment, stressresponse states, and the emotional exhaustion. Specifically, this study attempts to determine the amount of variation that can be explained in emotional exhaustion, the mai...

Although prison rape has been recognised for years, it began to receive increased attention in the U. S. following the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act. In addition to prevalence and victimisation estimates, several researchers have examined the attitudes of correctional personnel toward prison rape. However, few have surveyed the opinions of those not currently working in the crimina...

BACKGROUND Common mental health problems are prevalent in prison and the quality of prison health care provision for prisoners with mental health problems has been a focus of critical scrutiny. Currently, health policy aims to align and integrate prison health services and practices with those of the National Health Service (NHS). Medication management is a key aspect of treatment for patients ...

This article discusses the present state of access to books and other reading materials for inmates in Japan’s correctional facilities. While no professionally managed libraries are provided at these facilities— which explains why the term Prison Libraries in the title of this article is placed in quotation marks—incarcerated persons have the opportunity to obtain personal books, magazines, and...