A Pathway to care for older offenders: a toolkit for good practice / Department of Health, 29 October 2007
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"The purpose of this toolkit is to inform and assist the delivery of individually planned care for older prisoners whilst in prison, followed by successful resettlement back into the community, receiving the necessary support to sustain an optimum quality of life and reduce re-offending."

Prison Health Performance Indicators / Department of Health, 25 October 2007
http://digbig.com/4twdq
Author: Offender Health, Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships
"In conjunction with the key stakeholders, the Offender Health (formerly prison health) team has developed a set of voluntary indicators specifically to measure the quality of prison health services and to help achieve the objective of NHS-equivalent standards. Includes guidance booklet and letter."

The Mental health of prisoners: a thematic review of the care and support of prisoners with mental health needs: October 2007 / HMI Prisons, 24 October 2007 PDF - http://digbig.com/4ttwm

[USA] Prisoner Procreation and Abortion Issues
2007 (11) AELE Mo. L. J. 301, Jail & Prisoner Law Section – November, 2007
PDF - http://www.aele.org/law/2007JBNOV/2007-11MLJ301.pdf
"Prisons and jails nationwide often confront issues concerning prisoners’ requests to marry, procreate (including through artificial insemination), or obtain an abortion if they are pregnant during incarceration. This article attempts to briefly examine some of the important court decisions on these issues, especially from the perspective of federal constitutional law."

US: Immigrants in Detention at Risk / Human Rights Watch, 4 October 2007
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/10/03/usdom17015.htm
"Government Lax in Monitoring Medical Care
The US government should increase executive and legislative branch oversight of medical care for immigrants in detention."

In search of the “Tossed Salad Man” (and others involved in prison violence): New strategies for predicting and controlling violence in prison
Aggression and Violent Behavior, Volume 12, Issue 5, September-October 2007, Pages 531-541. Theme: Crime Classification and Offender Typologies
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James Byrne, Don Hummer
"This article addresses two fundamental questions: 1) Can we accurately identify a subgroup of high risk inmates who will likely be involved in various forms of prison violence; and if so, 2) Is there an empirical research supporting the contention that current classification systems reduce the risk posed by those offenders predicted to be violent (such as gang/security threat group members)?"
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[USA] HIV in Prisons, 2005 / US. Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 27 September 2007
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/hivp05.htm
"Provides the number of HIV-infection and confirmed AIDS cases among State and Federal prisoners at yearend 2005. This annual bulletin reports the number of AIDS-related deaths in prisons, a profile of those inmates who died, the number of female and male prisoners who were HIV-infected or had confirmed AIDS, and a comparison of confirmed AIDS rates for the general and prisoner populations. This report also examines trends in HIV infection, confirmed AIDS, and AIDS-related deaths."

[Scotland] NO ONE KNOWS: Identifying and supporting prisoners with learning difficulties and learning disabilities: the views of prison staff / Prison Reform Trust, September 2007
PDF - http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/temp/FinalspNOKspScotlandsplo-res.pdf
Nancy Loucks with Talbot Jenny

[USA] Sexual Violence Reported by Correctional Authorities, 2006 / US. Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics, August 2007
PDF - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/svrca06.pdf
Allen J. Beck, Paige M. Harrison, Devon B. Adams

[USA] Sexual Violence Reported by Correctional Authorities, 2006 / US. Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics, September 2007
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/svrca06.htm
"Presents data from the Survey on Sexual Violence, 2006, an administrative records collection of incidents of inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate sexual violence reported to correctional authorities. The report provides counts of sexual violence, by type, for adult prisons, jails, and other adult correctional facilities. The report provides an in-depth analysis of substantiated incidents, including where the incidents occur, time of day, number and characteristics of victims and perpetrators, nature of the injuries, impact on the victims, and sanctions imposed on the perpetrators."

Coerced drug treatment in the criminal justice system: Conceptual, ethical and criminological issues
Criminology and Criminal Justice, Vol. 7, No. 3, 269-286 (2007)
http://crj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/3/269
Toby Seddon
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Beyond public protection: An examination of community protection and public health approaches to high-risk offenders
Criminology and Criminal Justice, Vol. 7, No. 3, 203-222 (2007)
http://crj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/3/203
Hazel Kemshall ; Jason Wood
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Prisoner safety in HM prisons / HMI Prisons, 27 July 2007
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Crisis in the cells: Doctors reveal the problems gripping prisons in England and Wales / BMA, 19 July 2007
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[USA] When the “never happens” happens to you, Part I / Corrections.com, 18 July 2007
http://www.corrections.com/news/article?articleid=16214
Tracy E. Barnhart
"When I was first working in a maximum security juvenile prison I wanted information on what to do if taken hostage by inmates. This was a taboo concept, and as I have found during my research is taboo across the correctional society. It is like a two hundred pound gorilla in the room; everybody knows it’s there but nobody wants to talk about it."

Good Practice in Offender Health / Department of Health, 9 July 2007
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"The report outlines examples of good practice in provision of health care services to offenders in prison and the community. The examples have been drawn from surveys, internet search and individual submissions."

Cutting the pain away / Guardian, 17 July 2007
http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/story/0,,2125693,00.html
Marc Leverton
"Reports on moves to prevent prisoners self-harming or committing suicide."

The Relationships between alcohol-aggression proneness, general alcohol expectancies, hazardous drinking, and alcohol-related violence in adult male prisoners
Psychology, Crime & Law, Volume 13, Issue 3 June 2007 , pages 275 - 284
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Mary McMurran
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Mental health care in prisons / Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, July 2007
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EARLY LIGHTING UP BAN FOR INMATES / This is Hull and East Riding, 8 June 2007
http://digbig.com/4tbpy
H. Jones
"Inmates at the city's prison are being asked to comply with no smoking legislation weeks before it comes into force nationally.Hull Prison has introduced the ban on smoking in enclosed public places early to put it to the test."