Universal health coverage and incarceration
Universal health coverage and incarceration: People in prisons left behind in drive to reach universal healthcare goals: An international study of global progress in reaching...
Tag: prison
Life-limiting illness in prison
New research highlights the opportunities to improve care for people in prison who are dying from a progressive, life-limiting illness, by Dr Stacey Panozzo, Professor...
Going to prison increases HIV transmission risk
If someone is already injecting illegal drugs, going to prison substantially increases the risk that they will acquire HIV or the hepatitis C virus (HCV),...
The mental health effects of doing time
As part of its investigation into offender mental health in London, the London Assembly Health Committee held a public discussion on 19 April 2017, and...
Alarming rate of suicides in prison
The fact that prison suicides are at record levels is tragic, but it is only one of the most serious consequences of the last government’s...
Prisons (1968)
Maximum security prisons at Durham, Leicester and Parkhurst from British Pathe.
Mental health behind bars
Many people in prison suffer from mental illness and the Prison Service in the UK has under its care one of the most vulnerable and...
