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The Importance of Prisons in Achieving Hepatitis C Elimination: Insights from the Australian Experience

Viruses, 2022
Following the availability of highly effective direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) to treat hepatitis C infection, the uptake of treatment by people living with hepatitis C rose dramatically in high- and middle-income countries but has since declined.
Rebecca J. Winter, Jacinta A. Holmes, Timothy J. Papaluca, Alexander J. Thompson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
wiley   +1 more source

Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito, Federica de Cordova, Julia Manek, Sara Buckingham, Camilla Ponti, Francesco Tommasi, Bradley Olson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transitioning to nonpunitive school policies for addressing student substance use: Qualitative interviews with key school administrators

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent policy change in Massachusetts encourages schools to limit their use of exclusionary discipline to “extraordinary circumstances,” but little work has explored the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to nonpunitive practices after student substance use infractions in schools.
Kristina Conroy, M. Grace Albright, Kendall B. Roberts, Meghan A. Costello, Anthony J. Jannetti, Alexis R. Wing, Randi M. Schuster   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Views of prison staff in Scotland on the potential benefits and risks of e-cigarettes in smoke-free prisons: a qualitative focus group study

BMJ Open, 2019
ObjectiveElectronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were introduced into all Scottish prisons in February 2018, some months after prisons began preparing in 2017 for a smoking ban implemented in November 2018.
Helen Sweeting, Kate Hunt, Sean Semple, Ashley Brown, Greig Logan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Caregiver Reports on the Needs and Experiences of Children Impacted by Parental Incarceration: Results From an Australian Survey

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children experiencing parental imprisonment are known to be among the most overlooked in our community. They often experience multiple and compounding disadvantages, with long‐term consequences, but receive no specialised assistance. Knowledge about these children and their families is lacking in Australia and is required to inform policy ...
Catherine Flynn, Lana Battaglia, Lorana Bartels, Susan Dennison, Susy Harrigan, Lee Huggins, Sofia Grage‐Moore   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
wiley   +1 more source

Public Attitudes Toward Compassionate Release of Older People From Prison: Findings From a National Survey in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Natasha Ginnivan, Amanuel Kidane Hagos, Tony Butler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the nature of food served in selected prisons in Kenya. [PDF]

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2017
Catering in Kenyan prisons is an issue of great concern to the government and the entire society as it results in an increase in bad health and hardening of the behaviour of prisoners. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the nature of food served in
Dr. Jacqueline C. Korir
doaj  

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source