International Journal of Prisoner Health: Volume 10 Issue 4

A thematic analysis of how prisoners overcome suicidality

Lucy Reading, Erica Bowen

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions, beliefs and abilities that support adult male prisoners in overcoming suicidality.

Cooking in prison – from crook to cook

Linda Kjaer Minke

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse the principle and practice of self-catering system in a Danish prison. Self-catering is a reflection of the Danish…

Working with complex problem behaviors in juvenile institutional care: staff's competence, organizational conditions and public value

Lia Ahonen, Jürgen Degner

Institutional staff encounter juveniles with complex problems (externalizing and internalizing) which calls for adequate formal education/training and professional experience to…

The health of female prisoners in Indonesia

Amala Rahmah, James Blogg, Nurlan Silitonga, Muqowimul Aman, Robert Michael Power

Indonesian law provides prisoners with basic rights, including access to education, health care and nutrition. Yet, structural and institutional limitations, notably overcrowding…

Attitude to rehabilitative counselling in southwestern Nigerian prisons

Kayode A. Alao, Olusegun F. Adebowale

The purpose of this paper was to examine the attitudes of prison inmates and warders (prison staff) to rehabilitative counselling and its relationship to their prison status on…

Editorial

Morag MacDonald, Robert Greifinger, David Kane