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International Journal of Transgender Health, 2020 Background: Many jurisdictions globally have no specific prison policy to guide prison management and prison staff in relation to the special needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) prisoners despite the United Nations for the Treatment of
M. Van Hout, S. Kewley, Alyson Hillis
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Cost-effectiveness of HCV case-finding for people who inject drugs via dried blood spot testing in specialist addiction services and prisons [PDF]
, 2013 ObjectivesPeople who inject drugs (PWID) are at high risk for acquiring hepatitis C virus (HCV), but many are unaware of their infection. HCV dried blood spot (DBS) testing increases case-finding in addiction services and prisons.
Hickman, Matthew +5 more
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Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2020 Africa’s prisons are a long-standing concern for rights defenders given the prevalence of rights abuses, overcrowding, poor conditions of detention and the extent to which the criminal justice system is used to target the poor.
L. Muntingh
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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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Court-Ordered Compulsory Psychiatric Care and the Prosecutor’s Control Function
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2019 The health care system is responsible for the implementation of court-ordered compulsory psychiatric care. In order to ensure that the health care system fulfills the statutory responsibility for crime protection, the legislature has added a control ...
Øyvind Holst
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Zimbabwe’s prison facilities: Preparedness for institutional COVID-19 outbreaks
Public Health in Practice, 2021 Covid-19 cases and death are on the rise in Zimbabwe and other Southern African countries. This increase poses a major risk of outbreaks in institutions such as prisons and detention centers.
Solomon Mukwenha +3 more
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Rehabilitation doxa and practitioner judgment. An analysis of symbolic violence on health care provision in the Scottish prison system [PDF]
, 2018 This paper presents an analysis of the symbolic conditions which govern health care provision in the Scottish prison system. The paper considers the wider context of Scottish prisons, where health care provision follows a similar structure both in ...
Fernandes, Fernando L. +6 more
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Incarcerated Activity: The Work of Psychologists in Prisons
Psicologia, 2022 In Brazil, the presence of psychology in prisons was established by the Criminal Sentence Execution Act, in 1984, and it was intensified in the past three decades.
Rodrigo Padrini Monteiro +5 more
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Status of Tuberculosis services in Indian Prisons
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017 Introduction: Prisons are known to be a high risk environment for tuberculosis (TB) due to overcrowding, low levels of nutrition, poor infection control and lack of accessible healthcare services.
Banuru Muralidhara Prasad +7 more
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Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2017 Objective: The objective of this study is to develop a risk-screening questionnaire appropriate for cultural characteristics in detection of alcohol- and drug-use level through utilization of Addiction Profile Index (API) and perform the reliability and ...
Kültegin Ögel +2 more
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