Punishment for a crime shouldn’t extend to denying women’s fertility when they’re released from prison. Here’s why.
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Australia leads the world in community-based needle programs. Yet they’re not used in prisons – which are hotspots for hepatitis C infection.
Around 60% of Australians with hepatitis C have accessed treatment which usually cures the condition. But to eliminate the disease, we need to prevent re-infection and tackle stigma.
Higher jail mortality is related to jail turnover rates and demographics.
The artworks created by women in prison brought us greater understanding of their often complex and traumatic experiences
Despite Australia spending so much money on prisons, incarcerated women’s reproductive health care is lacking to the point of being degrading.
Direct-acting antivirals can cure hepatitis C in eight to 12 weeks. But while the rate of uptake in Australia has slowed, a greater proportion of those undertaking treatment are in prison.
The details of Ms A’s case reinforce what campaigners and midwives have been saying for years.
The Attica uprising marked a milestone in the prisoners’ rights movement. Many of the grievances aired in 1971 are still relevant to today’s incarcerated population.
It’s simply not “safe” for many Australians to come out of Scott Morrison’s proverbial cave until vaccination rates increase.
The proportion of prisoners awaiting trial in Nigeria is disturbing, and prolonged imprisonment can have a damaging effect on their mental functioning .
Prison lawyers in Canada are scrambling to fill the gap left by federal inaction on inmate populations who are vulnerable to COVID-19. A recent case in Ontario could provide a legal precedent.
In the 1790s, penal reformers rebuilt America’s squalid jails as airy, hygienic places meant to keep residents – and by extension society – healthy. Now they’re hotbeds of COVID-19. What went wrong?
Rapidly decreasing the prison population by letting people out is a public health imperative as governments for solutions to slow down the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Some drug and alcohol programs
currently used in prisons have little evidence to support them.
The only quitting tool most Australian prisoners have access to is nicotine lozenges. These are being mixed with tea leaves to create a smokable product known as “teabacco”.
World TB Day will be observed March 24, with the good news that deaths from tuberculosis are declining. But a trend toward confining those with TB threatens to stall advances.
Cigarettes are part of the social and economic fabric of prisons.
To reduce female recidivism rates, we need to address inmates’ histories of trauma and abuse.
Even though mental illness is consistently associated with criminal behavior, these conditions are largely undertreated in our prison system.
Top contributors
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Professor of Criminology and Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Emeritus Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Sociology, Durham University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, UNSW
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Researcher, Georgetown University
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiolgy, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Professor, Director of Research and Statistical Support Service and Program Leader for Substance Use and Mental Health, Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Birmingham
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Researcher, Georgetown University
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Professor of Health and Ethnicity, University of East London
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Head, Justice Health Group, Curtin University
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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UQ Amplify Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland