This study aims to identify the work stress of nurses in Correctional Institutions (LP). The method used is a systematic review by searching articles on Proquest, Pubmed and ScienceDirect databases with keywords "occupational stress" AND "correctional facilities". results show that nurses' correctional institutions closely related environment factors, prison inmate population management. In con...

The environments of twenty-seven boot camps and twenty-two traditional facilities were examined in a national study of ju\*enile correctional facilities. Surveys with administrators and data from institutional files indicated that juveniles in the boot camps had less serious offending histories than did those in traditional facilities. Boot camp environments were more structured and most incorp...

This practice parameter presents recommendations for the mental health assessment and treatment of youths in juvenile detention and correctional facilities. Mental and substance-related disorders are significant public health problems affecting youths in juvenile justice settings. Sufficient time is necessary to conduct a comprehensive diagnostic assessment, interview collateral historians, and...

To the Editor: Approximately two million individuals are incarcerated in the United States. Correctional institutions currently house more individuals with serious and persistent mental illness than any other type of U.S. institution (1). Given the disproportionate incarceration of African-American men and the difficulty they experience in accessing mental health treatment services outside of c...

than through the language and experience of a doctor and author like Anton Pavlovič Čechov, in whose work and biography I have been interested for many years. The idea of putting my own thoughts into a foreign language has always fascinated me – to create reality out of the unfamiliar, much like with a photograph, which is transforming reality twice and thereby renders it clearer. Against the r...

The prison population in the United States has grown steadily in the past 15 years. Farview State Hospital in Waymart, Pennsylvania annually provides service to approximately 350 to 400 inmates. This is less than 10 percent of the potential need for psychiatric treatment for the state. Emergency psychiatric admissions are a burden on the mental health system, as these inmates are given priority...