0380 With a forceful gesture, the delicate blond unlocks the heavy door of a cell in Riga’s Central Prison clinic (Figure 1). Her name is Dr. Inga Nagele. She is the head of the clinic’s tuberculosis (TB) unit. She opens the door to check on three female prisoners who have just been admitted. The conditions in the cell are bleak. Washing hangs on a line that stretches from one wall to the other...

This paper compares black-white health disparities among state prisoners to disparities in the noninstitutionalized community to provide a more complete portrait of the nation's heath. We use data from the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities and the 2002 and 2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for incarcerated and noninstitutionalized adult (age...

this article aims to analyze the importance of labeling, structural, rational choice and control theories to predict part and partially the re-prison rate. the method is survey and respondents involved the prisoners of at least two record of accusation. sample size amounts 340 prisoners including 98 female and 242 male who were selected by using stratified, systematic and random strategies from...

The life that prisoners live while in prison, makes them face various psychological problems, including loss of family, self-control, model, and support, course, facing problems to be able survive with these conditions serving a sentence. In this study, the aim study was determine relationship between social support adjustment. characteristics possessed are who first entered prison detention pe...

Ölüm cezası, devlet gücüyle, suç işlemiş bir şahsın hayat hakkının elinden alınmasıdır. İnsanlık tarihinin başlangıcından itibaren kamu düzeninin devamını sağlamak için erki tarafından sıkça bu cezaya başvurulmuştur. Türk tarihinde de aynı gerekçelerle her dönemde ölüm cezasına başvurulduğu görülmektedir. Bu ceza, Cumhuriyet döneminde devam ettirilmiştir. Türkiye’de özellikle askeri müdahale dö...

In 1985, only 7% of AIDS cases occurred among female adults and adolescents older than 13 years, but by 2005, they represented 27% of US AIDS cases.1 Younger women and girls are particularly vulnerable; those aged 25 years or younger accounted for 38% of HIV/AIDS diagnoses among women from 2001 to 2004.1 Even among prisoners, HIV disproportionately affects women. For example, in the Rhode Islan...