International Journal of Prison Health: Volume 20 Issue 1

COVID-related disruptions and adaptations to prison-based mental health and substance use services: a narrative review

Tenzin C. Butsang, Shahroze Zafar, Parisa Dastoori, Arthur McLuhan, Emma Janet Rice, Carolyn Ziegler, Angela Mashford-Pringle, Flora I. Matheson

Public health experts and advocates have long raised concerns about the pandemic preparedness of prison systems worldwide – an issue that became increasingly salient at the start…

Healthy prison cultures: factors influencing male prisoners’ engagement in exercise and subsequent healthy behaviours

Hannah Hammond, Rosie Meek, Emily Glorney

The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors which influence male prisoners’ motivation for, and engagement in, exercise and subsequent healthy behaviours.

“We don’t even know where it’s kept”: exploring perspectives on naloxone administration by provincial correctional workers in Manitoba, Canada

Rose Rosemary Ricciardelli, Matthew S. Johnston, Katharina Maier

Prisonersare at disproportionate risk of suffering substance-related harms. The administration of naloxone is essential to reversing opioid overdose and minimizing…

Prison food and the carceral experience: a systematic review

Claire Johnson, Samuel Gagnon, Pierre Goguen, Caroline P. LeBlanc

This study aims to focus on studies that qualitatively explore prison food experience. The goal is to elaborate a framework to better understand how prison food shapes the…

Cardiovascular disease in Sub-Saharan African prisons: a scoping review

Amos Gavi, Emma Plugge, Marie Claire Van Hout

The dual epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) in Sub-Saharan Africa has increased substantially in recent years, with…

How effective are digital/e-health interventions for supporting prisoners with mental ill-health? An integrative review

Ann-Marie Bright, Agnes Higgins, Annmarie Grealish

There has been a move towards the implementation of digital/e-health interventions for some time. Digital/e-health interventions have demonstrable efficacy in increasing…

Suicide, suicide attempts and self-harm in Moroccan prisons

Maha Aon, Anne Katrine Graudal Levinsen, Taoufiq Abtal, Mouna Regragui, Che Henry Ngwa, Dominique Berhan Leth-Sørensen, Mohamed Bouharras, Majda Azzouzi, Adil Benjelloun, Nisrine Riffai, Marie Brasholt

High rates of suicide and self-harm are reported in prisons in Western countries, while fewer studies exist from a non-Western context. This study aims to identify rates of…

Cardiovascular risk assessment of people living in prison in the Northern region of Ghana

Mohammed Hashim Abukari, Collins Afriyie Appiah, Alexander Kwarteng, Sherifa Iddrisu

The health of people living in prisons (PLP) frequently remains marginalised in national development discourse, particularly in resource-constrained settings like Ghana. This…

Analysis of antipsychotic drugs prescribing in incarcerated persons in a Serbian correctional facility

Stanimir Čekerinac, Ana Starčević, Miloš Basailović, Dušan Sekulić, Nevena Divac

Prison settings have limited resources, and it is of particular interest to analyze which antipsychotics are commonly prescribed in these conditions and to determine the…