A Novel Condom Distribution Program for County Jail Prisoners [PDF]
, 2008 The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), in collaboration with the Center for Health Justice, the Forensic AIDS Project, and the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, conducted a feasibility study of a novel method of providing condoms to prisoners ...
Kate Monico Klein +2 more
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Impact of Family-Inclusive Case Management on Reentry Outcomes: Interim Report on the Safer Return Demonstration Evaluation [PDF]
, 2011 Outlines preliminary findings on the impact of a family-inclusive reentry model designed to improve former prisoners' employment, substance abuse, and recidivism outcomes by utilizing the resources and strengths of their families and support ...
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The Price We Pay: Economic Costs of Barriers to Employment for Former Prisoners and People Convicted of Felonies [PDF]
, 2016 Despite modest declines in recent years, the large and decades-long blossoming of the prison population ensure that it will take many years before the United States sees a corresponding decrease in the number of former prisoners.
Alan Barber, Cherrie Bucknor
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Racial Disparities and Similarities in Post-Release Recidivism and Employment Among Ex-prisoners with a Different Level of Education [PDF]
, 2015 Previous studies rarely examined racial disparities in post-release employment and recidivism. Finding a job is an immediate challenge to all released ex-prisoners, and often more difficult for African American ex-prisoners who typically return to ...
Ho, Taiping +3 more
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Prison Staff and Prisoner Views on a Prison Smoking Ban: Evidence From the Tobacco in Prisons Study [PDF]
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2018 Abstract Introduction In jurisdictions permitting prisoner smoking, rates are high (c75%), with smoking embedded in prison culture, leading to secondhand smoke exposures among staff and prisoners and challenges for smoking cessation.
Greig Logan +6 more
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Prevalence of eye and adnexal disorders among elderly inmates in Taiwan prisons
BMC Public HealthBackground Prisoner health is a topic of significant importance; however, it has received limited attention in epidemiological studies, likely because of challenges in obtaining relevant data.
Ching-Yao Tsai +6 more
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Segregated prisoners: nature imagery project in prisons as a program option [PDF]
, 2018 Master's Project (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2018Solitary confinement can be summarized as the state of being alone in a prison cell for 22 to 24 hours a day with minimal human interaction, little to no natural light, property restrictions ...
Schwankl, Kristine
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BMC Psychiatry, 2017 Background Prison is an extremely stressful environment and prisoners have an increasing risk of suffering from alexithymia. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of alexithymia among prisoners in China.
Li Chen +4 more
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Prisoners' Labour Market History and Aspirations: A Focus on Western Australia [PDF]
This paper examines the employability and labour market aspirations of prisoners. The results suggest that repeat prisoners are less likely to be employed than nonrepeat prisoners. However, a large proportion of the employment differential between repeat
Anh Tram Le, Margaret Giles
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Cruelty, Prison Conditions, and the Eighth Amendment [PDF]
, 2009 The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, but its normative force derives chiefly from its use of the word cruel. For this prohibition to be meaningful in a society where incarceration is the primary mode of criminal punishment, it ...
Dolovich, Sharon
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