SURVEYING PRISON ENVIRONMENTS WILLIAM G. SAYLOR OFFICE OF RESEARCH FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS There are primarily two approaches to measuring organizational properties such as climates: the subjective or psychological approach and the objective or structural approach. Previous organizational climate studies have generally relied on either one approach or the other, but not both, in a single anal...

Open prisons are portrayed as less harmful custodial institutions than closed prisons, and prison systems that rely more heavily on low security imprisonment typically considered to have a humane punitive approach punishment. However, few studies systematically compared the subjective experiences of prisoners held in open no study has yet role function across jurisdictions. Drawing survey condu...

House of Commons Debates Prisons: During an Adjournment Debate on February 6th, 1963, Mr. Leo Abse stated that "in 1961, on more than 100 occasions men and women in our prisons and borstals were placed in straitjackets. More than half of the women suffering this treatment were young women inside our borstals." He also stated that strait-jackets, the use of which had in effect been abandoned by ...

BACKGROUND Prisoners are associated with high health care needs compared with the general population. This study aims to investigate prisoners' use of health service. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 29 prisons in central and southern parts of Norway. A questionnaire was distributed to 1, 454 prisoners (90% response rate). Multilevel analyses were employed to analyse help seeking behaviour ...

BACKGROUND Mental illness is highly prevalent among prisoners. Although psychotropic medicines can ameliorate symptoms of mental illness, prescribers in prisons must balance clinical needs against risks to safety and security. Concerns have been raised at the large number of prisoners reportedly receiving psychotropic medicines in England. Nonetheless, unlike for the wider community, robust pre...