Gendered Prison Work: Female Prison Officers in the Local Prison System, 1877-1939

Women In Prison: A Review of the Current Female Prison System: Future Directions and Alternatives

A review of relevant literature has indicated that women are sentenced inconsistently by the criminal justice system showing differences between harsh, equal or lenient treatment. This dissertation highlights that sending women to prison, who tend not commit serious crime and drawing a prison population who have the characteristics of economic and social deprivation, is completely unnecessary. ...

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/...

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...

Intellectual Disability in the Victorian Prison System

Self-harm in the prison system

Self-harm is a much more common pathology within the prison environment than outside of this, so much so that it can be considered specific to it. For 7 years, in the biggest prison hospital in Romania, self-harm was present in 5% of the hospitalized patients, with a total of 762 cases. The mechanisms of self-harm were the ingestion of foreign bodies (63%) and the insertion of foreign bodies in...