BACKGROUND Prisons of the former Soviet Union (FSU) have high rates of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and are thought to drive general population tuberculosis (TB) epidemics. Effective prison case detection, though employing more expensive technologies, may reduce long-term treatment costs and slow MDR-TB transmission. METHODS AND FINDINGS We developed a dynamic transmission model ...

ISSN: 1526-5161 (Print) 1536-0075 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uajb20 Equivalency of Care Difficult to Attain in U.S. Prisons Gregory J. Dober To cite this article: Gregory J. Dober (2014) Equivalency of Care Difficult to Attain in U.S. Prisons, The American Journal of Bioethics, 14:7, 17-19, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2014.922370 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.o...

We quantify the cost of limited liability rules in a traditional model of investment financing under moral hazard and risk aversion. Under limited liability, we show that external debt and the granting of absolute priority to debtholders are key (but not the unique) ingredients of the optimal financing package. Removing liability limits makes possible a superior contract that punishes the entre...

In this paper, we propose a continuous time model for modeling the spread of HIV in a network of prisons. We give some sufficient conditions for the equilibrium points of the system to be stable. We also develop an efficient algorithm based on Newton’s method and the Sherman-Morrison-Woodbury Formula for computing the equilibrium values of the infectives in each prison.

Survey data of opinions are often collected to answer questions about individuals and processes affecting individuals. This is an appropriate use of survey data as the unit of analysis matches the unit of measurement. Sometimes, though, survey data (individual-level data) are used to create group-level measures. For example, the percentage of inmates at one prison who responded that safety is a...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) transmission in prisons poses significant risks to inmates as well as the general population. Currently, there are no data on smear-negative pulmonary TB cases in prisons and by extension no data on the impact such cases have on TB incidence. This study was designed to obtain initial data on the prevalence of smear-negative cases of TB in prisons as well as prelimin...

US prison health care has recently been in the news and in the courts. A particular issue is whether prisons should contract out for health care. Contracting out has been growing over the past few decades. The stated motivation for this change ranges from a desire to improve the prison healthcare system, sometimes in response to a court mandate, to a desire to reduce costs. This study is a firs...

The unique characteristics of prisons have important implications for treating clients in this setting. Though by no means exhaustive, this chapter highlights the most salient issues affecting the delivery of effective treatment to a variety of populations within the prison system. It describes the prison population as of 2003, reviews the treatment services available and key issues affecting t...