"What I have done is not who I am. Most of us are emotionally and physically wounded. It's not easy getting out and starting over. We need help, don't just throw us out into society."
Oct 23, 2017
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A pilot quit smoking program trialled on prisoners in the Goldfields has helped quash the inmate's nicotine dependency, thereby laying the foundation for smoke-free prisons throughout WA.
Nov 10, 2015
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Researchers have identified a simple intervention that may help reduce levels of violence in maximum security prisons. Inmates who viewed nature videos showed reduced levels of aggression and were less likely to be disciplined ...
Aug 5, 2016
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Prisons and drug use are closely linked. Two-thirds of Australian prisoners report using illicit drugs in the 12 months before they entered prison, compared with 12% of the general population in the previous 12 months. Around ...
Sep 7, 2018
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People in prisons are at an increased risk of COVID-19—with a death rate over three times higher than that of the general population—and should be made a vaccine priority, according to UCL-led team of researchers.
Mar 18, 2021
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While most medical attention has been on COVID, work has been underway to eliminate another viral disease, hepatitis C.
Jul 28, 2022
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The War on Drugs, mass incarceration of drug users, and the failure to provide proven harm reduction and treatment strategies has led to high levels of HIV, tuberculosis, and hepatitis B and C infection among prisoners—far ...
Jul 15, 2016
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With opioid overdose deaths surging in the United States, many communities are in desperate need of solutions to bring down the body count. Among the most promising is strengthening prison reentry programs for highest-risk ...
Aug 21, 2023
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More than half of all people incarcerated in the U.S. smoke cigarettes, a hidden health crisis that has long been under-researched and under-resourced.
Jul 5, 2022
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Giving inmates drug substitution treatment, needles and condoms are key ways to help curb addiction and HIV infection in European jails, experts say, calling on authorities to change their approach to prison health care.
Mar 1, 2013
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