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BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2018 Background Words matter when describing people involved in the criminal justice system because language can have a significant impact upon health, wellbeing, and access to health information and services.
Nguyen Toan Tran +9 more
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Tuberculosis treatment outcomes among prisoners and general population in Zomba, Malawi
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background TB remains a major global health problem. It is particularly prevalent in prisons in sub-Saharan Africa due to overcrowding, malnutrition, high HIV prevalence and insufficient medical services.
Victor Singano +3 more
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The prisoners may be in two minds [PDF]
arXiv, 2003 Recognise that people have many, possibly conflicting, aspects to their personality. We hypothesise that each separate characteristic of a personality may be treated as an independent player in a non-zero sum many player game. This idea is applied to the two person Prisoners' Dilemma as an introductory example. We assume each prisoner has a ``mercenary'
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Evaluating peer-supported screening as a hepatitis C case-finding model in prisoners
Harm Reduction Journal, 2019 Background Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection is endemic in prison populations, and HCV management in prisons is suboptimal. Incarceration is a public health opportunity to target this cohort.
Desmond Crowley +13 more
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Self-governing prisons: Prison gangs in an international perspective
Trends in Organized Crime, 2018 This paper finds qualified support for the use of Skarbek’s (2011, 2014) governance theory to understand the emergence of prison gang-like groups in Kyrgyzstan, Northern Ireland and Brazil.
M. Butler +2 more
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Generalized prisoner's dilemma [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 Prisoner's dilemma has been heavily studied. In classical model, each player chooses to either "Cooperate" or "Defect". In this paper, we generalize the prisoner's dilemma with a new alternative which is neither defect or cooperation. The classical model is the special case under the condition that the third state is not taken into consideration.
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Discover PsychologyUnderstanding children of incarcerated parents frequently reflects a myopic focus on risk, disadvantage, and likelihood of intergenerational justice system involvement.
Chelsea Hunsucker
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A non-cooperative Pareto-efficient solution to a one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma [PDF]
arXiv, 2010 The Prisoner's Dilemma is a simple model that captures the essential contradiction between individual rationality and global rationality. Although the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma is usually viewed simple, in this paper we will categorize it into five different types.
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Quantum Prisoners' Dilemma under Enhanced Interrogation [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 In the quantum version of prisoners' dilemma, each prisoner is equipped with a single qubit that the interrogator can entangle. We enlarge the available Hilbert space by introducing a third qubit that the interrogator can entangle with the other two.
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Mental Health Consultations in Immigration Detention: What Can We Learn From Clinical Records?
International Journal of Public HealthObjectives: Knowledge on mental health consultations in immigration detention and characteristics of people receiving consultations is scarce. Based on a sample of 230 adult men in immigration detention in Switzerland, we aimed to: (1) Quantify the ...
Leonel C. Gonçalves +11 more
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