Education within Prison Walls

Drug Abuse Treatment Beyond Prison Walls

The period surrounding release from prison is a critical time for parolees, bearing the potential for a drug-free and crime-free life in the community but also high risks for recidivism and relapse to drugs. The authors describe two projects. The first illustrates the use of a formal Delphi process to elicit and combine the expertise of treatment providers, researchers, corrections personnel, a...

'Stone walls do not a prison make'.

Prison-based peer-education schemes

Historically, peer programs have been utilized in school and community settings to address a range of health issues such as HIV/AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse, and youth violence. However, in terms of offender rehabilitation, the change process has generally rested upon professional staff, with little formal consideration of the powerful positive influence that offenders can have on fellow offend...

Stone walls do not a prison psychiatrist make.

Introduction As reported by the editor of The Forensic ~ c h o , ' the number of applicants to the many forensic psychiatry training programs in this country has increased sharply. With the expanding corrections economy, "a bright idealistic generation" now has an opportunity to work with the "underbelly of society." It is at last possible to acknowledge openly that "Not every prisoner with a p...

On both sides of the prison walls-prisoners and HIV.

Few would refute that the most neglected and vulnerable of all populations in the global HIV/AIDS response are people who are incarcerated. Today, The Lancet continues its ongoing attention to HIV in marginalised populations with a collection of reviews on HIV and related infections in prisoners. Prison populations are at especially high risk of HIV infections as a consequence of risk factors t...