Officials should not only work to reduce prisoners' risk of catching AIDS in prison, they should also help a captive audience learn about safer practices in a way that would stick when the inmates returned to the community.
Blasphemy prisoners risk being attacked or killed inside prison by fellow inmates or even guards.
The case is challenging cuts to prison law legal aid, which has seen funding removed for mother-and-baby-unit cases, segregation cases, pre-tariff review hearings and adjudications in which prisoners risk getting extra days added to their sentence.
Elliott announced in March that jails that failed to cut reoffending rates among their prisoners risked being taken over by private operators.
(Recidivism is highest the first year out of prison, and then drops; in a few years, a former prisoner's risk of committing a new crime is no different from that of others of the same age).
However, Lloyd said offender managers, who are responsible for assessing a prisoner's risk of re-offending, were overstretched and might only spend a few minutes at a time with a prisoner.
The inadequacy of the prison diet is placing the prisoners at risk of acute and chronic nutrient deficiency diseases.
Apart from immunosuppression due to HIV, the high prevalence of TB in prisons is often related to prisoner-associated risk factors such as malnutrition [ 13, 14, 28].
On any given day, prison staff provide crucial care to over 2000 prisoners at risk of self-harming.
The earlier version also reported that one in 10 prisoners at Wormwood Scrubs said they had been physically assaulted and that "too many prisoners at risk of suicide or self-harm were held in the segregation unit without any explanation of the exceptional reasons required to justify it".
