Jails 'failing to treat inmates'
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Prison doctors say the public is at risk from drug addicts and mentally ill offenders being released from jail without treatment.
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LOS ANGELES  Overcrowding and staff shortages at Los Angeles County jails is forcing some incoming inmates with medical problems to sleep on floors while waiting to be transferred to cellblocks.
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The Chief Inspector of Prisons says improvements to the system are under threat because of overcrowding.
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Prison 'outsourcing' is linked to concerns about riots, recidivism, and family hardship.
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Fewer than three prisoners in every 1,000 report they were sexually abused or harassed, but that probably is not the whole story, a government study says.
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Drug-using prisoners may be given clean needles under a scheme being considered by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). The service has confirmed it is considering handing out kits to inmates as part of a harm-reduction programme.
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Police and prosecutors are failing to implement measures designed to boost the rape conviction rate, a watchdog warns.
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Ministers have backed down on proposals allowing people suffering from mental illness who have not committed a crime to be locked up.
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Prisoners who endure poor or degrading treatment suffer much of the same long-term psychological distress as do captives who are tortured, suggests a study published Monday.
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Some two-thirds of Russia's jail inmates suffer from mental illnesses, serious diseases from AIDS to tuberculosis and syphilis, or alcohol and drug addictions, a top justice ministry official says.
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Opposition to Government proposals to locate the Central Mental Hospital in the new Mountjoy prison complex escalated today. The Irish College of Psychiatrists joined the Stateâs mental health watchdog, patients
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California's troubled prison system was dealt a setback Tuesday when a judge ruled the state cannot ease its severe overcrowding by transferring inmates elsewhere.
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The government has been accused of failing to meet a promise to scrap mixed-sex wards in NHS hospitals.
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A United Nations anti-torture body has criticised Britain for the &quot;unsatisfactory&quot; conditions in its prisons, including a &quot;substantial number of deaths in custody&quot;, urging it to act at once to improve them.
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The acquittal of seven guards and a nurse charged in the death of a teenage boot-camp inmate has renewed calls for reform of the state's troubled corrections system
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Public and press demands over the supervision of criminals cannot be met because the probation service is facing a tightening "squeeze", a government inspector warned today.
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Â· Rise in suicides to one-third of all deaths Â· Campaign group blames overcrowding Â· Mentally ill inmates 'need care, not punishment'