BACKGROUND The prison management in Malaysia is proactively seeking to improve the health status of the prison inmates. Intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) are widely distributed throughout the world and are still gaining great concern due to their significant morbidity and mortality among infected humans. In Malaysia, there is a paucity of information on IPIs among prison inmates. In order ...

the present study focuses on malcolm x's autobiographical account of his prison life based on foucault's notions of prison in discipline and punish. the researchers seek to show that the ambivalent nature of imprisonment helped malcolm attain knowledge and power through paradoxical mechanisms. on the one hand, the prison house acts as an oppressive force on the psyche of the black man...

Prisons are invariably unisex institutions where, besides many deprivations, heterosexual expression in its normal sense is absent. It is this characteristic that make prisons settings potentially fertile grounds for sexual aberrations. Since definite and accurate data concerning sexual activities among prison inmates are difficult to obtain, the phenomenon of sexual practices in prisons has tr...

Tuberculosis is one of the fastest-growing epidemics in prison populations in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), constituting a threat to both inmates and the wider community. Various factors have contributed to the breakdown of tuberculosis control in prison facilities in SSA, including slow and insensitive diagnostics, failing prison infrastructure, inadequate funding, and weak prevention and treatmen...

diaries E. Lamb, president of the Southern Conference. Civil Service Employees Association, has announced committee appointments for the coming year. Committee members are: Resolutions and legislative — John D. O'Brien, Middletown State Hospital, chairman; Francis A. McDonald, Warwick State S c h o o l ; Joseph McCollouRh. Hudson Valley Armories: Raymond Beeb?, Hudson Training Scltool; Frank Gr...

This study expands on the current body of research examining technology-supported groups, individual creativity, and group diversity. By incorporating each of these elements into the experimental design, our objective was to determine how technology can best be leveraged to promote group creativity. We argue that diverse groups who are visually anonymous – i.e., they make use of the anonymity f...

AIMS To assess the effectiveness for Scotland's National Naloxone Programme (NNP) by comparison between 2006-10 (before) and 2011-13 (after NNP started in January 2011) and to assess cost-effectiveness. DESIGN This was a pre-post evaluation of a national policy. Cost-effectiveness was assessed by prescription costs against life-years gained per opioid-related death (ORD) averted. SETTING Sc...

BACKGROUND People concentrated in congregated systems, such as prisons, are important but often neglected reservoirs for TB transmission, and threaten those in the outside community. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the prevalence of tuberculosis in a prison system of North Gondar Zone. METHODS An active case-finding survey in North Gondar Prison was carried out from March to ...

BACKGROUND Prison populations in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) experience a high burden of disease and poor access to health care. Although it is generally understood that environmental conditions are dire and contribute to disease spread, evidence of how environmental conditions interact with facility-level social and institutional factors is lacking. This study aimed to unpack the nature of intera...