Emerging Issues in Prison Health
This volume recognizes and addresses the health care issues of prisoners, to establish best practices and to learn about approaches to these challenges from around the world. It presents new evidence on several emerging and classical prison health issues.
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ing Issues in Prison Health
Emerging Issues in Prison Health
Bernice S. Elger • Catherine Ritter • Heino Stöver Editors
Emerging Issues in Prison Health
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Editors Bernice S. Elger Institute for Biomedical Ethics University of Basel Basel, Switzerland
Catherine Ritter Federal Office of Public Health Bern, Switzerland
Heino Stöver Faculty ‘Health and Social Work’ Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt, Germany
ISBN 978-94-017-7556-4 ISBN 978-94-017-7558-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-7558-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016940965 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Dordrecht
Foreword
There is now a growing comparative academic literature which describes conditions in prisons around the world. This research complements the exhaustive reports which are produced on a regular basis by international bodies such as the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, by regional bodies such as the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, and by many national inspecting and monitoring bodies. In addition, regional courts, such as the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, frequently produce important judgements on prison conditions. All of these documents paint a remarkably consistent picture of the general situation in many prisons around the world: prisons in developed and developing countries, in the northern and the southern hemispheres, and in the east and the west. Features such as overcrowding, lack of resources, poor conditions, violence, and lack of control are present in all prison systems. Only the degree of each of them varies. In some countries, for example, overcrowding may imply that two or three prisoners are required to live in a cell which was designed to hold one pers
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