International Journal of Prisoner Health: Volume 12 Issue 4

Editorial

Morag MacDonald, David Kane

Access to healthcare services during incarceration among female inmates

Rabia Ahmed, Cybele Angel, Rebecca Martel, Diane Pyne, Louanne Keenan

Incarcerated women have a disproportionate burden of infectious and chronic disease, in addition to substance use disorder and mental health illness, when compared to the general…

Counterintuitive findings from a qualitative study of mental health in English women’s prisons

Laura S. Caulfield

Large numbers of women in prison report significant emotional and mental health problems, and there is evidence to suggest that the prison environment may exacerbate the incidence…

A literature-based intervention for women prisoners: preliminary findings

Josie Billington, Eleanor Longden, Jude Robinson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether Shared Reading (SR), a specific literature-based intervention, is transposable to a prison context and whether mental health…

Facets of psychopathy in relation to trauma-exposure and posttraumatic stress symptomology in a sample of incarcerated male offenders

Russell Woodfield, Katie Dhingra, Daniel Boduszek, Agata Debowska

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the moderating role of psychopathy facets on the relationship between traumatic exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD…

Healthcare resources are inadequate to address the burden of illness among HIV-infected male prisoners in Malaysia

Joseph Bick, Gabriel Culbert, Haider A. Al-Darraji, Clayton Koh, Veena Pillai, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Frederick Altice

Criminalization of drug use in Malaysia has concentrated people who inject drugs (PWID) and people living with HIV into prisons where health services are minimal and HIV-related…

Smoking cessation in smoke-free prisons: a grounded theory study

Ashleigh Djachenko, Winsome St John, Creina Mitchell

Prisoners are vulnerable to tobacco addiction and have a smoking prevalence significantly higher than that of the general community. The context of this study was the…