Prior research into military–civilian transition has suggested that the Prison Service may be a popular destination for Armed Forces leavers, but experience of former military personnel within prison system as staff (rather than Veterans in Custody) so far been overlooked. As result, we know very little about their route work. This article reports on UK study investigating who have previously s...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the facilities for inpatient care of mentally disordered people in prison. DESIGN Semistructured inspections conducted by doctor and nurse. Expected standards were based on healthcare quality standards published by the Prison Service or the NHS. SETTING 13 prisons with inpatient beds in England and Wales subject to the prison inspectorate's routine inspection progra...

BACKGROUND The prison management in Malaysia is proactively seeking to improve the health status of the prison inmates. Intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) are widely distributed throughout the world and are still gaining great concern due to their significant morbidity and mortality among infected humans. In Malaysia, there is a paucity of information on IPIs among prison inmates. In order ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to assess the health promotion needs of vulnerable young prisoners and the existing health promotion activities in custodial settings in seven European Union (EU) Member States. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The research comprised two components: the first involved identifying existing health promotion practices. The second involved mapping out young offende...

a study was carried out to evaluate job satisfaction of employers in a prison in 1997. the populations of study were all of staff as officiary person; contracthal and mission people. the results showed that 62.5% of the study population has beenemployed in this work because of their interest. but in the study time, 79.2% of them liked to leave their work. 73% of employers' families were not sat...

Key points • TB in prisons is a major public health problem in many settings, particularly in countries with a high incidence of TB. • The TB notification rate in prisons ranges from 11 to 81 times higher than in the general population. The situation is worsened by the emergence and spread of drug-resistant TB, particularly multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB. • Pr...

Abstract Background The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has been long regarded for its progressive policy approach to health promotion in prison. It is one of the few countries with a strategic plan implementation. Given paucity understanding relation concept promoting prison, this study assessed routinely collected prison inspection data understand and distil learning regard practical implementa...

BACKGROUND We report the prevalence of penile implants among prisoners and determine the independent predictors for having penile implants. Questions on penile implants were included in the Sexual Health and Attitudes of Australian Prisoners (SHAAP) survey following concerns raised by prison health staff that increasing numbers of prisoners reported having penile implants while in prison. MET...