Rights, Pains and Illusions: The Experiences of Welsh‐Speakers at Wales’ ‘Flagship’ Prison
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article challenges claims of ‘inherent’ bilingualism in Wales’ largest prison, HMP Berwyn. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews and extensive documentary research, we find that Welsh‐speaking prisoners at this ‘flagship’ prison have experienced widespread neglect of their needs and overt interferences with their use of the Welsh language.
Robert Jones, Gregory Davies
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Using chest X-ray to screen for Tuberculosis on arrival to prison: A service evaluation. [PDF]
Public Health Pract (Oxf)Perrett SE +7 more
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Do Human Rights Work? Evidence From Prison Death Investigations in Scotland
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It seems self‐evident that countries which have embraced human rights would have better human rights compliance. This article examines this assumption in prison death investigations in Scotland (called fatal accident inquiries or FAIs). The right to life (Article 2 ECHR) includes a procedural right to an effective investigation of deaths ...
Sarah Armstrong +3 more
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Access to services for mental ill-health and substance use among people released from prison in Scotland (RELEASE): Retrospective observational cohort study protocol. [PDF]
Int J Popul Data SciKjellgren R +8 more
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reframes the concept of imminence of suicide risk of mentally ill offenders under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which enshrines the right to life. The proposal is based on Article 2 domestic violence jurisprudence which has built its knowledge of lethal risk by reference to relevant expertise.
Sabina Garahan
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Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
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Beyond contextual stressors: uncertain reflective functioning, loneliness and emotional exhaustion as psychological correlates of perceived stress in prison officers. [PDF]
Int J Prison Health (2024)Sorge A +6 more
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‘There Is No Such Thing’—Meaningful Human Contact in Prison Under International Law
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on the notion of ‘meaningful human contact’ as expressed in the Mandela Rules 2015 (United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners—SMRs) through fieldwork carried out in Scottish prisons via a letter‐writing project.
Deborah Russo
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Application of co-design to develop and prioritise health literacy-informed action ideas for implementation across prisons in New South Wales, Australia. [PDF]
Sci RepGill SW +10 more
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Collecting resource use data for economic evaluation in a prison setting with a focus on self-harm: the Prison Data Inventory (Self-Harm) (PDI (SH)). [PDF]
Front PsychiatryRobinson L +4 more
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