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Structured Intervention Units and Mental Health in Canadian Federal Prisons
Published 2022-11-01“… On 21 June 2019, the federal government passed Bill C-83: An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and another Act with the primary intention of eliminating the use of administrative and disciplinary segregation in Canadian federal prisons and replacing the practice with structured intervention units. …”
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Burnout and habits harmful to the health of employees in the Argentine federal prison service
Published 2023-07-01“…Objectives: To describe the prevalence and relationship between burnout and unhealthy habits amongst workers of the Argentine Federal Prison Service (SPF). Material and method: An ex post-facto study was carried out with descriptive, cross-sectional, comparative and comparative analyses. …”
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Unpacking the Prison Food Paradox: Formerly Incarcerated Individuals’ Experience of Food within Federal Prisons in Canada
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Structured Intervention Units and Mental Health in Canadian Federal Prisons: A Policy Assessment of Bill C-83
Published 2022-11-01“…On 21 June 2019, the federal government passed Bill C-83: An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and another Act with the primary intention of eliminating the use of administrative and disciplinary segregation in Canadian federal prisons and replacing the practice with structured intervention units. …”
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Prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms among prisoners in Kaliti Federal Prison in Ethiopia: a facility based cross-sectional study
Published 2023-01-01“…Objective This study intended to examine the prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms among inmates in Kaliti Prison Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Methods A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 694 randomly selected inmates in Kaliti Federal Prison in Ethiopia. The depressive symptom was examined using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). …”
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Punishing mobility: membership, race, and privatization in all-foreign prisons in the United States of America
Published 2023“…First, they were explicitly designed to segregate foreign national offenders from the rest of the Federal prison population. Second, they were the only outsourced prisons within the Federal prison system, and operated under a separate, less-stringent regulatory regime. …”
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Închisoarea federală Oz - Un model de reprezentare mediatică a comunicării în grupurile din instituțiile închise
Published 2002-06-01“…<p>The article seeks to explore the particular features of group communication networks and processes in the media-created environment of Oz, The Federal Prison. Specific characteristics of the OZ groups, their members, internal and external group pressures, distribution of status and group formation are analyzed by retorting to group communication theories and the pioneering work of American sociologist Ervin Goffman on prisons as total institutions. …”
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Vácuo no poder? Reflexões sobre a difusão do Primeiro Comando da Capital pelo Brasil
Published 2020-09-01“…The article aims to discuss the point of view of managers of the federal prison administration on the factors that brought about the spread of the criminal group Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) throughout Brazil and the effects of this movement within the prison systems of individual states. …”
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Creating the responsible prisoner : federal admission and orientation packs
Published 2007“…This article examines official management practices and rhetoric in the US federal prison system as they are set out in admission handbooks that are distributed to inmates on arrival. …”
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The Nature of the Space: Walls to Bridges as Transformative Learning
Published 2018-05-01“…Through a self-reflexive approach, this essay describes one such first-hand experience from a Walls to Bridges class, offered through Wilfrid Laurier University and facilitated in a Canadian Federal Prison. The learning model utilized within this class has the capacity to deeply engage students in ways where traditional classroom methodology falls short. …”
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Unleashing compassionate care: canine-assisted intervention as a promising harm reduction approach to prisonization in Canada and its relevance to forensic psychiatry
Published 2023-08-01“…The authors of this perspective study have been running a CAI program with therapy dogs, called PAWSitive Support, in a Canadian federal prison since 2016. Thoughts from the program facilitators and interviews with prison staff indicate that the program, and specifically the therapy dogs, provides a unique and integrated source of comfort, support, and love for participants. …”
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Comparison of the distribution maps for drug addict hotspot in Selangor using different spatial analysis tools
Published 2020“…Furthermore, 56% of all inmates in the federal prison are locked-up because of drug-related offences. …”
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Prevalence of and risk factors for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection in entrants and residents of an Ethiopian prison.
Published 2023-01-01“…The purpose of this study was to estimate and compare the prevalence and risk factors for HIV infection amongst both male as well as female and entrant and resident prisoners in a large Ethiopian Federal Prison.<h4>Methods</h4>We studied consenting prisoners cross-sectionally from August 2014 through November 2016. …”
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Prevalence of and risk factors for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection in entrants and residents of an Ethiopian prison
Published 2023-01-01“…The purpose of this study was to estimate and compare the prevalence and risk factors for HIV infection amongst both male as well as female and entrant and resident prisoners in a large Ethiopian Federal Prison. <h4>Methods</h4> We studied consenting prisoners cross-sectionally from August 2014 through November 2016. …”
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Sex differences in pre-incarceration mental illness, substance use, injury and sexually transmitted infections and health service utilization: a longitudinal linkage study of peopl...
Published 2023-04-01“…In this study, we conducted a longitudinal cohort study of 39,498 adults in Ontario, Canada between January 1, 2002, and December 31, 2011 using linked administrative health and correctional data to describe mental illness, substance use, injury, sexually transmitted infections and health service utilization of men and women in federal prisons in the 3 years prior to their incarceration, compared to a matched group. …”
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P-16 FIRST MICRO ELIMINATION INTERVENTION OF HEPATITIS B &C IN INMATES OF THE EIGHT PRISONS IN THE PROVINCE OF MENDOZA, ARGENTINA
Published 2023-03-01“…Conclusions: There´s a previous study in Argentina´s federal prisons (2016) on 2.277 inmates, where HCV and HBV prevalences were higher than ours (3,3% and 0,51%, respectively). …”
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