Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Birmingham, L. (2003) The mental health of prisoners. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2003), vol. 9.

According to the author, strong negative feelings arise because of dissatisfaction convicted of needs such as privacy, which is the desire for a quiet domestic life, including the possibility of self-isolation. Moreover, the other mainstream factors are security that is primarily due to fears of a possible attack on them by other inmates, and limitations caused by strict rules of conduct. In addition, the mental health of prisoners also varies due to the fact that the prisoners are usually kept away from the inability to determine social support or even a full emotional life. The other factors that the author highlighted were related to the social incentives, as the desires for personal growth, communication with friends and subject activity are always kept away from the prisoners, which majorly affect their mental health.

Bradley, L. (2009) The Bradley Report. OH, London.

The overcrowding of cells, its precariousness and its unhealthiness make arrests in an environment conducive to the proliferation of epidemics and contagious diseases. According to the author, all these structural factors still allied to poor nutrition of the prisoners, their sedentary lifestyle, drug use, lack of hygiene and all luridness prison; make the prisoner prone to mental health issues. According to many studies, the growing number and severity of mentally ill patients in the prisons, have lead to a consensus that the environment in the prisons is not conducive to the patients. The author in his paper highlights the importance of assessing and identifying the inmates suffering from mental health problems. Also, Criminal Justice Mental Health Teams must also be established. Governance level must also be setup on local and national levels.

Brooker, C, Ricketts, T, Lemme, F, Dent-Brown, K and Hibbert, C. (2005) An Evaluation of the Prison in-reach Collaborative. National Programme on Forensic Mental Health Research and Development.

According to the European Convention on Human Rights, all people have the equal right for the provision of quality health care, and the same goes for prisoners as well. Despite this fact, there is a wide gap that is evident in the health care that is available to prisoners as compared to a common man. According to the stats, there are around 90,000 prisoners in the UK, of which 90% have some form of mental disorder. It is desirable that Prison Health Services (including the psychiatry) resources to be integrated into the National Health System. It is necessary to facilitate institutionalized coordination between administrations of Justice, Health and Prisons for the development of all the recommendations made.

Department of Health (2001) Changing the Outlook: A Strategy for Developing and Modernising Mental Health Services in Prisons.

According to the author, prisons are a source of suffering, since the individual is away from his friends and family, forcing him to live in a violent environment, overcrowded and full of new rules, to face a lawsuit exhausting to deal with disciplinary isolation and numerous daily micro stressors that enhance the risk ...