International Journal of Prisoner Health: Volume 13 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Cyrus Ahalt, Brie Williams

Human rights and correctional health policy: a view from Europe

Mary Rogan

Correctional healthcare should promote the protection of human rights. The purpose of this paper is to bring a discussion of human rights into debates on how such policy should be…

Family planning services for incarcerated women: models for filling an unmet need

Carolyn Sufrin, Sara Baird, Jennifer Clarke, Elizabeth Feldman

Incarcerated women around the globe are predominantly of reproductive age. Most of these women have been pregnant before, and many want to be sexually active and avoid pregnancy…

The potential of prison-based democratic therapeutic communities

Jamie Bennett, Richard Shuker

The purpose of this paper is to describe the work of HMP Grendon, the only prison in the UK to operate entirely as a series of democratic therapeutic communities and to summarise…

Addressing excess risk of overdose among recently incarcerated people in the USA: harm reduction interventions in correctional settings

Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, David H. Cloud, Chelsea Davis, Nickolas Zaller, Ayesha Delany-Brumsey, Leah Pope, Sarah Martino, Benjamin Bouvier, Josiah Rich

The purpose of this paper is to discuss overdose among those with criminal justice experience and recommend harm reduction strategies to lessen overdose risk among this vulnerable…

Challenges and opportunities for gender-affirming healthcare for transgender women in prison

Jae Sevelius, Valerie Jenness

The purpose of this paper is to briefly address three interrelated areas of concerns – victimization, housing placement and healthcare provision – related to the health and…

Reducing the use and impact of solitary confinement in corrections

Cyrus Ahalt, Craig Haney, Sarah Rios, Matthew P. Fox, David Farabee, Brie Williams

Although the reform of solitary confinement is underway in many jurisdictions around world, isolation remains in widespread use in many jails and prisons. The purpose of this…

Setting a minimum age for juvenile justice jurisdiction in California

Elizabeth S. Barnert, Laura S. Abrams, Cheryl Maxson, Lauren Gase, Patricia Soung, Paul Carroll, Eraka Bath

Despite the existence of minimum age laws for juvenile justice jurisdiction in 18 US states, California has no explicit law that protects children (i.e. youth less than 12 years…

Older and incarcerated: policy implications of aging prison populations

Zachary Psick, Jonathan Simon, Rebecca Brown, Cyrus Ahalt

The purpose of this paper is to explore the policy Implications of aging prison populations.