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PLoS Medicine, 2019 Background It has been hypothesized that prisons serve as amplifiers of general tuberculosis (TB) epidemics, but there is a paucity of data on this phenomenon and the potential population-level effects of prison-focused interventions.
T. Mabud +10 more
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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
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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 +6 more
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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 +4 more
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Engaging prisoners in education: Reducing risk and recidivism [PDF]
, 2015 Engaging prisoners in education is one of a range of measures that could alleviate security risk in prisons. For prisoners, one of the main challenges with incarceration is monotony, often leading to frustration, raising the risk of injury for staff and ...
Farley, Helen, Pike, Anne
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Illinois Prisoners' Reentry Success Three Years after Release [PDF]
, 2008 Tracks 145 men released from Illinois prisons for three years through interviews and reincarceration records, and examines the factors that affect their reintegration, such as age, criminal history, employment, housing, health, and personal ...
Christy A. Visher, Jennifer Yahner
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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
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Mental illness and the provision of mental health services in prisons
British Medical Bulletin, 2018 Introduction Around 11 million people are held in prisons internationally, and criminal justice systems are overburdened with a high prevalence of multiple psychiatric disorders.
Andrew Forrester +3 more
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Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Learning in prison is too often excluded from wider discussions of educational experiences, processes and impact. This paper proposes, for the first time, an iterative andragogical framework to conceptualise learning spaces within prison contexts.
Morwenna Bennallick +3 more
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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
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