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Safer tattooing interventions in prisons: a systematic review and call to action

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Worldwide more than ten million people are detained at any given time. Between 5 and 60% of people experiencing incarceration report receipt of a tattoo in prison – mostly clandestine, which is associated with risks of blood-borne infections ...
Nguyen Toan Tran, Célestine Dubost, Stéphanie Baggio, Laurent Gétaz, Hans Wolff   +4 more
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New hepatitis C virus infection, re-infection and associated risk behaviour in male Irish prisoners: a cohort study, 2019

Archives of Public Health, 2021
Background Prisoners are recognised as a high-risk population and prisons as high-risk locations for the transmission of hepatitis c virus (HCV) infection.
Des Crowley, Gordana Avramovic, Walter Cullen, Collette Farrell, Anne Halpin, Mary Keevans, Eamon Laird, Tina McHugh, Susan McKiernan, Sarah Jayne Miggin, Ross Murtagh, Eileen O. Connor, Marie O’Meara, Deirdre O. Reilly, John S. Lambert   +14 more
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Teaching a distance higher education curriculum behind bars: challenges and opportunities [PDF]

, 2010
The provision of education that is both effective and relevant to the needs of students within prison is challenging on a number of levels. The uniqueness of prison culture with a regime characterised by a focus on security measures such as lock-downs ...
Watts, Jacqueline H.
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Blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections: a cross-sectional study in a Swiss prison

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Incarcerated people carry a high burden of infection, including blood-borne diseases (BBDs). It is also known that one million people contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI) every day worldwide, which represents a global public health ...
Komal Chacowry Pala, Stéphanie Baggio, Nguyen Toan Tran, François Girardin, Hans Wolff, Laurent Gétaz   +5 more
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Healthier prisons: The role of a prison visitors' centre [PDF]

, 2009
Since the inception of the prison as a ‘setting’ for health promotion, there has been a focus on how the health of those men and women who spend ‘time inside’ can at least be maintained and if possible, enhanced, during their prison sentence.
Baybutt M, Boswell G, Cunningham A, de Viggiani N, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Greenwood N, Hairston C, Hairston C F, Hartworth C, HM Chief Inspectorate of Prisons, Holt N, Home Office, Lester C, Light R, Light R, Loucks N, Loucks N, McCallum A, McEvoy K, Morris P, Niven S, NOMS, Salmon S, Smith C, Smith R, Social Exclusion Unit, Webster G, Woodall J, Woodward W   +30 more
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In-prison university programs in Argentina: Building citizenship

European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2023
In Argentina, more than half of the public universities carry out some kind of academic activity inside prisons. Together with their remarkable extension, these heterogeneous programs have emerged in a context that could be considered adverse: alarming ...
Ramiro Gual
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'Reclaiming the criminal' : the role and training of prison officers in England, 1877-1914 [PDF]

, 2008
This article examines the role and training of prison officers in England, between 1877 and 1914. It is concerned with the changing penal philosophies and practices of this period and how these were implemented in local prisons, and the duties of the ...
Blake Major W., Coyle A., Crawley E., Forsythe B., Foucault M., Garland D., Gladstone Committee, Griffiths A., Hobhouse S., Ignatieff M., Johnston H., McConville S., McConville S., McConville S., Melossi D., Nellis M., O'Brien P., Pears E., Pratt J., Pratt J., Rutherford A., Sparks R.F., Thomas J.E., Thomas J.E., Webb S., Wilde O., Zedner L.   +26 more
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Prevalence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Detention Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018
Background: Previous studies have reported a high prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among people living in detention (PLD) corresponding to a five- to ten-fold increase compared to the general population.
Stéphanie Baggio, Stéphanie Baggio, Ana Fructuoso, Marta Guimaraes, Eveline Fois, Diane Golay, Patrick Heller, Nader Perroud, Candy Aubry, Susan Young, Didier Delessert, Laurent Gétaz, Nguyen T. Tran, Nguyen T. Tran, Hans Wolff   +14 more
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Prison staff and the health promoting prison. [PDF]

, 2011
Purpose – This paper aims to discuss some of the obstacles to implementing policy and strategy related to health promoting prisons. It focuses on the role of prison officers and raises issues concerning their conditions of service, training and ...
Dixey, R, Woodall, J
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Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality‐based Predictions of Future Life Experiences Across Different Perceivers

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels, Johannes Zimmermann, Daniel Leising, Jan‐Erik Lönnqvist   +3 more
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