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.
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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.
People with a history of mental disorders experience particularly poor outcomes after being released from prison, according…
From May next year, Queensland prisoners will no longer be able to smoke cigarettes. Smoking in cells was prohibited in Queensland facilities in 2008, but as of next year the prohibition will extend to…
Locking up people is easy. It is the first refuge of intellectually bankrupt politicians clamouring for votes by “getting tough” on crime. A good general will read history before going to war, so a good…
People with intellectual disabilities who are found to be “unfit to plead” are still locked away for years on end in Western Australia. Similarly, in the Northern Territory, this detention occurs in prison…
The idea of prisoners having sex upsets people; it offends our sense that prison is a place of punishment not pleasure. But sex still happens, maybe more than we like to think. And if it is happening…
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Sydney-based researcher affiliated with the Global Tobacco Control Research Programme at Simon Fraser University, Canada, Macquarie University
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Foundation Director, Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne
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Professor, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University
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Professor of Health and Ethnicity, University of East London
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Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiolgy, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Associate Professor in Crimninology; Deputy Dircetor Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Program Leader for 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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Sessional Lecturer, RMIT University
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Researcher, Georgetown University
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Researcher, Georgetown University
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Professor of Criminology and Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland
