OBJECTIVES This study examined a cohort of 7,046 men who were released from the Pennsylvania State prison system between 1999 and 2002 to Philadelphia County to assess the relationships between receipt of mental health services in prison and prison exit. METHODS Administrative data on prison stays for 7,046 men released from Pennsylvania prisons to Philadelphia locations were analyzed. RESU...

BACKGROUND Psychiatric surveys conducted in prison populations find high prevalence rates, but diagnoses may be difficult in this particular context. None of these surveys have been conducted in France. METHODS 800 incarcerated male were sampled at random. Each prisoner was interviewed by a group of 2 clinicians, at least one of them being a senior psychiatrist. One of the clinicians used a s...

Everydayness links the histories and crescendos of our lives. Once we lose this "glue", many of our reference points for linking these histories are lost and the structure and patterns of our lives start to unravel. For families separated by prison, telephone calls and letters offer a form of glue, but punitive structures place many constraints on this type of communication. These constraints r...

We tested the effects of various policy rules on retailer behavior in laboratory experiments conducted at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Our experimental designmodels themultifaceted contemporary market for consumer computer products and is quite complex, but we found that participants can make effective decisions and that their behavior is sensitive to variations in policies. Based on our resul...

The aim is to analyse the current developments of prison tech, verify its progress in promoting access justice context, examine digital transformation Portuguese context and raise ethical, practical human rights issues that use technologies prisons raises. This essay oriented by following question: Are technological advances serving as a tool support or further discriminate against persons depr...

As a major aim of incarceration is to reduce crime, it is important to understand the extent to which it does so. Isolating the effect of prison on crime can be difficult because of reverse causation: higher crime rates also tend to lead to larger prison populations. This paper utilizes state legislated reductions in the prison population to address this question. These policy changes were adop...