Exceptional prison conditions and the quality of prison life: Prison size and prison culture in Norwegian closed prisons

Prison Conditions and Recidivism

Prison Conditions and Recidivism We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of deaths in the facility of detention during an inmate’s stay and 3) ...

Prison staff and the health promoting prison.

PURPOSE This paper aims to discuss some of the obstacles to implementing policy and strategy related to health promoting prisons. It focuses on the role of prison officers and raises issues concerning their conditions of service, training and organisational culture in a situation where the prison system faces security issues, overcrowding and high levels of ill health among prisoners. DESIGN/...

Sex life in prison.

Prison

This work is evidently an assiduous garnering of facts and figures as expounded during an extensive guided tour of penal instiutions. But a book about prison in which no single prisoner appears as a creature of flesh and blood is unmistakably a secondhand affair which cannot take much hold of what prison is all about. However, the material is wide-ranging, useful for reference and a guide to of...

Measuring the quality of prison life

The aim of this research was to explore whether it is possible to develop well grounded survey measures of prison life and quality, which can provide an additional operationally useful measure to those already in place (such as Key Performance Indicators and Standards Audits). The research found that it is possible to measure complex aspects of prison quality, such as relationships, respect, sa...