Davis has long campaigned against prisons, regarding them as brutalising racist institutions from which, latterly, big bucks are to be made.
Klara Durkin, Belica, Croatia Addressing health care in prisons Regarding "Lessons from European prisons" (Editorial, Nov. 9): The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, at a rate of more than 700 per 100,000 people, compared with 148 per 100,000 in England and Wales, which itself is high by West European standards.
In a sample of incarcerated men who reported regular injecting drug use prior to their current sentence, 44% were classified as experiencing current current poor psychiatric well-being as measured by the GHQ-12, indicating potential unmet need during periods of incarceration for people detained in prison regarding mental health service delivery.
Wasn't it the place that all the American gangsters I met in prison regarded as their holy of holies?
Ankara dismissively says it will be neither Europe's policeman nor prison guard regarding refugees.
The panel, which is to report its findings by the end of June, will look at issues including aging buildings, endemic violence, high rates of recidivism, poor medical and educational programs and a reported "code of silence" among prison guards regarding abusive treatment of inmates.
Gordon has, it appears, snagged a photograph of the notorious killers Leopold and Loeb sitting together on a bunk in Joliet State Prison "avidly regarding the latest issue of Bandbox," holding it open "like a box of candy they were sharing on a back-porch swing".
In light of the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in Australian prisons and lack of research regarding prison quality for Indigenous Australians (Rynne and Cassematis 2015), the Aboriginal community governance committee guiding the research argued strongly that this vulnerable group should be included in the range of patient pathways being explored in the project.
The show was prompted by Piper Kerman's book, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, which describes her experience in federal prison, including issues regarding her relationships in and outside of prison, mental illness and substance abuse among prisoners, the prison social structure, and even life after prison.
ER: The roadblocks to making this film were endless, particularly regarding prison and prisoner access.
Based on a literature review to assess the spread of hepatitis C among prisoners and to learn more about the impact for the prison system, recommendations regarding hepatitis C prevention, screening and treatment in prisons have been formulated in this article.
