BACKGROUND Although morbidity is high in prisoners compared with the general population, uncertainty exists over rates for natural causes of death. We investigated natural deaths in prisons in England and Wales over a 20-year period. METHODS All men who died in English and Welsh prisons from 1978-1997 were identified. All deaths received a post-mortem. Death certificates were obtained to prov...

BACKGROUND Harm reduction is a health-centred approach that seeks to reduce the health and social harms associated with high-risk behaviors, such as illicit drug use. The objective of this study is to determine the association between the beliefs of a group of adult, male prisoners in Iran about the transmission of HIV and their high-risk practices while in prison. METHODS A cross-sectional s...

OBJECTIVE Reports of increased rates of psychosis in prisons could be due to sampling and ascertainment differences. The authors compared two samples of subjects 16-64 years of age: those from the general population of residents in Great Britain and prisoners in England and Wales. METHOD A random sample of remanded and sentenced male and female prisoners (N=3,142) and a two-phase, cross-secti...

This paper analyses data from a recent study of ex-prisoners and prisoners in Gauteng Province, South Africa, to consider the moral economy established by hegemonic inmate culture in which sexual interactions are negotiated. It argues that while this system is based on outside norms of heterosexism, ruptures with these norms occur. Male prison populations are rearranged into gendered categories...

The current study explores associations between implicit and explicit aggression in young adult male prisoners, seeking to apply the Reflection-Impulsive Model and indicate parity with elements of the General Aggression Model and social cognition. Implicit cognitive aggressive processing is not an area that has been examined among prisoners. Two hundred and sixty two prisoners completed an impl...

Male prisoners are faced with a variety of unexpected situations and conditions while in correctional institutions. The sudden change experienced by has an impact on the Quality Life (QoL) they have. However, research that addresses these factors systematically is not yet available. Therefore, this study wants to see what influence QoL prison. Method: This literature review uses articles books ...

population injected drugs in the six months before arrest.45 If we assume from our data that 8% of them were HIV positive that gives an estimated total of 203 HIV positive male drug injectors in the sentenced population. The corresponding figures for women (about 168 recent injectors, and 15% HIV positive) suggest a total of 25 HIV positive women in prison. At any time, therefore, the total num...