Key points • Prisoners are often considered geriatric at the age of 50 or 55 years. • Plans should be made for the increasing use of health care services and medical care costs in the light of the growing number of older prisoners. • Consideration should be given to developing a geriatric, team-based model of care for older prisoners, particularly those with multimorbidity. • The medication lis...

Rehabilitation is composed of a number different types interventions, which are employed in varying degrees to provide purposeful activity for prisoners. They challenge offending behavior, basic education tackle illiteracy and innumeracy equip prisoners with life work skills. The Prison Service Kenya charged the task rehabilitating inmates as they serve their sentences within confines prison ho...

BACKGROUND Can stressful events in early life alter the response characteristics of the human stress axis? Individual differences in stress reactivity are considered potentially important in long-term health and disease; however, little is known about the sources of these individual differences. We present evidence that adverse experience in childhood and adolescence can alter core components o...

Introduction and aims: Prison entrants commonly have a history of problematic alcohol and other drug (AoD) use. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians are vastly overrepresented in Australian prisons with an incarceration rate 16 times that of non-Indigenous Australians. Relatively little attention has been given to the patterns of AoD use among prison entrants and we hy...

This paper explores dying in English prisons. Whilst often conflated, death and are conceptually different. While there is increased attention given to the investigation of deaths custody, impact prison on healthcare staff custodial staff, little has been paid experience people themselves. Post-death investigations tell us about experiences dying. reviewed literature prisons highlights this cle...

OBJECTIVE To determine the mortality attributable to smoking and years of potential life lost from smoking among people in prison and whether bans on smoking in prison are associated with reductions in smoking related deaths. DESIGN Analysis of cross sectional survey data with the smoking attributable mortality, morbidity, and economic costs system; population based time series analysis. SE...

Thriving at work is an emerging phenomenon in recent times, which is defined as a psychological state in which individuals experience both the senses of vitality and learning. Researchers and practitioners are looking for ways to enhance the employee’s thriving at work, because it is associated with behavioral outcomes. The objective of this study is to empirically investigate the impact of con...