International Journal of Prisoner Health: Volume 8 Issue 1

Implementing change: staff experiences of changes to prison mental healthcare in England and Wales

Laura S. Caulfield, Hannah Twort

Stemming from substantial criticism during the late twentieth and early twenty‐first century, the UK government and HM Prison Service developed a number of policies and protocols…

Toward healthy prisons: the TECH model and its applications

Michael W. Ross, Amy Jo Harzke

This paper aims to explore how the TECH Model (testing for and treating infectious diseases and vaccination; environmental modification to prevent disease transmission; chronic…

Dentition status and treatment needs of prisoners of Haryana state, India

Vikram Bansal, G.M. Sogi, K.L. Veeresha, Adarsh Kumar, Shelly Bansal

This paper aims to explore prisoner dental health in Haryana, India.

“Double burden”: a qualitative study of HIV positive prisoners in Italy

Maurizio Esposito

This paper aims to consider the influence of imprisonment on the health of prisoners with the HIV virus or AIDS and their perceptions of their quality of life.

The impact of overcrowding

Morag MacDonald, Robert Greifinger, David Kane