Despite data indicating that child maltreatment (CM) in various forms is associated with adult sexual victimization among community women, few studies have explicitly explored how types of CM might relate to prison sexual victimization. Because little is known about how CM might give rise to prison sexual victimization, the present study also examined emotion dysregulation emanating from early ...

A systems approach to modeling demand which incorporates survival modeling is applied to the problem of prison population projection. The approach models the flow of inmates through the prison system and differs from earlier approaches by exploiting the differences in the incarceration hazard rates of individuals in the general population and those who have previously been incarcerated and expl...

When I read this, 1 could hear the words of so many officers, telling me 'we lock up 300 bodies on this wing', or I was reminded of the 'body book' signed at reception when the police handed over a prisoner. A first ever Thematic Inspection had been carried out on 'Suicide in Prison' in 1984. This had been inspired by three hangings within 12 months at HMP Swansea, and a 'lack of care' verdict ...

The prison population is increasing and the health problems of prisoners are considerable. Prison is designed with punishment, correction and rehabilitation to the community in mind and these goals may conflict with the aims of health care. A literature review showed that the main issues in prison health care are mental health, substance abuse and communicable diseases. Women prisoners and olde...

The authors investigated whether students who selectively volunteer for a study of prison life possess dispositions associated with behaving abusively. Students were recruited for a psychological study of prison life using a virtually identical newspaper ad as used in the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE; Haney, Banks & Zimbardo, 1973) or for a psychological study, an identical ad minus the word...

BACKGROUND Clinicians working in a women's prison in British Columbia observed hepatitis C sero-conversion among inmates, prompting this study to determine: the characteristics of women who do and do not report illicit drug use in prison; patterns of drug use inside prison; factors associated with illicit drug use that might contribute to bloodborne transmission inside prison. METHODS A cross...

Prison data collection is a labyrinthine infrastructure. This article engages with debates around the political potentials and limitations of transparency as form “accountability,” specifically it relates to carceral management gathering. We examine use OASys, widely used risk assessment tool in British prison system, order demonstrate how operates means legitimating ensuing penal management. P...