Journal articles: 'Nevada. Department of Prisons'

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O'Callaghan, Angela M., and M. L. Robinson. "Revamping a Master Gardener Curriculum for Use in Prison Job Readiness Programs." HortScience 41, no. 4 (July 2006): 968D—968. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.41.4.968d.

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University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE) faculty members have taught horticulture to inmates of correctional facilities for over 8 years. The training material used was the Master Gardener curriculum. Because inmates in Nevada have few opportunities to meet requirements for certification as Master Gardeners, this program was described simply as a horticulture class. Over the past 3 years, we have redirected it toward job readiness to assist inmates after release. The curriculum was first expanded to do intensive teaching on such topics as irrigation, landscape plant selection and maintenance, and problem solving. Even with these changes, horticulture jobs generally limited to low-paying, entry level ones. To improve employment opportunities, UNCE obtained the involvement of the Nevada Department of Agriculture. After inmates have passed the horticulture program, they may take the state pesticide applicator training and examination. This year, a mini course in “Developing a Business Model” will be added to the initial curriculum. To date, 36 inmates have received PAT certification. Conversations with potential employers indicate that this significantly enhances their likelihood of employment at a higher-than-entry level.

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Meek, John. "Gangs in New Zealand Prisons." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 25, no. 3 (December 1992): 255–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486589202500304.

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Gangs became a permanent feature of New Zealand prisons during the 1980s. Surveys indicate that more than 20% of inmates have past or present gang affiliations. This article looks at the gang phenomenon both in the community and in prisons. A case study looking at the impact of gangs at Auckland Maximum Security Prison (Paremoremo) is included; a unique inmate subculture was destroyed and inter-gang conflict resulted in the prison being run on a unit basis. Using information from the 1989prison census, including unpublished material, the article examines the level of gang membership and compares gang members and unaffiliated inmates over a range of variables. Gang members were found to be more likely to be younger, classified as requiring medium or maximum security custody, convicted of violent offences and serving longer sentences. The article also looks at management approaches to gangs in prisons and a fresh approach being adopted by the Department of Justice.

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Engbo, Hans Jørgen. "Disciplinærretlig skyld og straf i danske fængsler." Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab 108, no. 1 (March 27, 2021): 136–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/ntfk.v108i1.125568.

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AbstractThis article describes disciplinary sanctions applied to imates in Danish prisons. The aricle begins with an explanation of the purpose of disciplinarypunishment and of the legal basis for its use. The article then provides an analysis of administrative practices illustrated by descriptions of a few representative disciplinary cases decided by the prisons and appelate cases decided by the courts and the Department of Prisons and Probation. In relation to legal bases, the analysis reveals significant shortcomings regarding both the provision and the assessment of evidence as well as the choice of sanction. The article concludes with a series of recommendations to the authorities.

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Konrad, Norbert, Marc S. Daigle, Anasseril E. Daniel, Greg E. Dear, Patrick Frottier, Lindsay M. Hayes, Ad Kerkhof, Alison Liebling, and Marco Sarchiapone. "Preventing Suicide in Prisons, Part I." Crisis 28, no. 3 (May 2007): 113–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910.28.3.113.

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Abstract. In 2000 the Department of Mental Health of the World Health Organization (WHO) published a guide named Preventing Suicide. A Resource for Prison Officers as part of the WHO worldwide initiative for the prevention of suicide. In 2007 there are new epidemiological data on prison suicide, a more detailed discussion of risk factors accounting for the generally higher rate of suicide in correctional settings in comparison to the general population, and several strategies for developing screening instruments. As a first step, this paper presents an update of the WHO guide by the Task Force on Suicide in Prisons, created by the International Association for Suicide Prevention. A second paper, by the same Task Force, will present some international comparisons of suicide prevention services in correctional facilities.

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EICHENTHAL, DAVID R., and LAUREL BLATCHFORD. "Prison Crime in New York State." Prison Journal 77, no. 4 (December 1997): 456–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032855597077004005.

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The lack of attention devoted to crimes committed in prisons is striking given the important implications of the problem both for prison management and for public safety. This study examines reporting of crimes, referrals for prosecution and actual prosecution of crimes committed in New York State prisons. The authors find that there is no accurate means of tracking either prison crimes or prosecutions. But based on interviews, a review of state correctional department data, and a survey of prosecutors in more than one dozen counties where state prisons are located, they conclude that as many as 6,000 crimes may be committed annually in the New York State prison system. Yet few of these crimes are referred for prosecution or actually prosecuted.

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Holland, Margaret M., Stephanie Grace Prost, Heath C. Hoffmann, and George E. Dickinson. "U.S. Department of Corrections Compassionate Release Policies: A Content Analysis and Call to Action." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 81, no. 4 (August 6, 2018): 607–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030222818791708.

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Large and increasing numbers of inmates with chronic and terminal illnesses are serving time, and dying, in U.S. prisons. The restriction of men and women to die in prisons has many ethical and fiscal concerns, as it deprives incarcerated persons of their autonomy and requires comprehensive and costly health-care services. To ameliorate these concerns, compassionate release policies, which allow inmates the ability to die in their own communities, have been adopted in federal and state prison systems. However, little is known about the content of compassionate release policies within U.S. states’ department of corrections, despite recent calls to release incarcerated persons who meet eligibility criteria into the community. The current study provides an overview of compassionate release policies in the United States, which vary widely across the compassionate release process. Specific policy recommendations are made to assure the timely access and utilization of compassionate release among eligible incarcerated individuals.

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Miller, Dana M., and Amy Jo Hunsaker. "Extending Name Authority Work beyond the Cataloging Department: A Case Study at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries." Library Resources & Technical Services 62, no. 3 (July 2, 2018): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/lrts.62n3.136.

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The University of Nevada, Reno Libraries’ Metadata and Cataloging Department partnered with the Special Collections and Digital Initiatives departments to obtain NACO certification. To meet the needs of our users and better represent Nevada figures in the Library of Congress Name Authority File, the three departments collaborated to create a new workflow and a tool that effectively extended name authority work and record contribution beyond traditional MARC cataloging.

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Jewell Bohlinger, B. "Greening the Gulag: Austerity, neoliberalism, and the making of the “green prisoner”." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 3, no. 4 (October 3, 2019): 1120–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2514848619879041.

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Over the past 30 years the U.S. prison population has exploded. With the impact of climate change already here, we are also seeing new critiques of mass incarceration emerge, namely their environmental impact. In response to these burgeoning critiques as well as calls to action by the Justice Department to implement more sustainable and cost-effective strategies in prisons, the United States is experiencing a surge in prison sustainability programs throughout the country. Although sustainability is an important challenge facing the world, this paper argues that while “greening” programs seem like attempts to reform current methods of imprisonment, sustainability programming is an extension of the neoliberalization of incarceration in the United States. By emphasizing cost cutting while individualizing rehabilitation, prisons mobilize sustainability programming to produce “green prisoners” who are willing to take responsibility for their rehabilitation and diminish their economically burdensome behaviors (i.e. excessive wastefulness). Using semi-structure journals and interviews at three Oregon prisons, this paper investigates these ideas through the lens of the Sustainability in Prisons Project.

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Taylor, Cathryn Pappas, and Linda Jameson. "Marketing the emergency department at Northern Nevada Medical Center—A nursing approach." Journal of Emergency Nursing 21, no. 6 (December 1995): 578–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0099-1767(05)80288-0.

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Boyle, Otis, and Elizabeth Stanley. "Private prisons and the management of scandal." Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 15, no. 1 (October 16, 2017): 67–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741659017736097.

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In 2009, the Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Amendment Act re-implemented prison privatisation in New Zealand (NZ). Subsequently, ‘Mt Eden’, a public prison, was contracted to Serco and a second prison, ‘Wiri’, was built under contract to the same company. Despite glowing performance reports, Serco’s reputation was significantly damaged when cell-phone video capturing Mt Eden prisoners engaged in fights, in full view of prison officers and CCTV, was uploaded to YouTube in July 2015. An unprecedented stream of media revelations about prisoner mistreatment, corruption and serious human rights violations followed, prompting the Department of Corrections to seize control of the prison. This article examines the potential of this human rights based scandal to challenge the legitimacy of private prisons in NZ. Where previously, prison legitimacy largely revolved around representations of managerialism, security and the maintenance of austere conditions, the revelations at Mt Eden highlighted a moment when penal legitimacy fractured for being too severe and non-humanitarian. Drawing upon analysis of media articles (n = 648) over seven years (2009–2016) from three major sources (the New Zealand Herald, Stuff News and Radio NZ), the article demonstrates how journalists quickly reverted to traditional discursive frames on imprisonment. Representing the crisis as an unfortunate aberration that could be managed through government controls, mainstream media helped to consolidate and ultimately strengthen the legitimacy of the prison in NZ.

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Dorkins, Eluned. "Training in prison psychiatry." Psychiatric Bulletin 21, no. 1 (January 1997): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.21.1.52.

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Training in psychiatric work in prisons may not always receive adequate attention, as highlighted in the Reed Report (Department of Health and Home Office, 1992). As a first step in addressing this, a one-day induction procedure has been added to the Induction Programme for the Forensic Senior Registrars at the Regional Secure Unit (RSU) in Bristol. The contents of the programme were determined by discussion among prison medical staff, the Training Department and Forensic Senior Registrars, and are outlined in the following timetable:

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Bocale, Paola. "Restorative Justice Principles and Practices and the Discourse of Respect: A Case Study of a Teacher in a Custodial Establishment for Young Offenders." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 11, no. 2 (March 10, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/mjss-2020-0014.

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This study aims to explore discourses of respect in the Education Department of a Young Offenders Institution (HMYOI X). The research builds upon the existing literature on the concept of respect both in restorative justice and in prisons to develop a deeper understanding of perspectives on respect in custodial education. More specifically, the study examines a self-narrative elicited from a teacher working in a YOI in England to investigate the discourses of respect which prevail in a custodial institution. The research findings provide a better understanding of the discourses and dynamics of respect within an educational custodial setting and of some of the problems and challenges that need to be addressed in enhancing and assessing the use of restorative justice in prisons.

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Kaufman, S. "COCORP: Nevada areas, Part I and Part II." GEOPHYSICS 50, no. 11 (November 1985): 2281. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/1.1441871.

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The Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) announces the availability of the data packages and digital tapes for two areas: Nevada area, Part 1, lines 4, 5, and 6 covering 270.1 line‐km; and Nevada area, Part II, lines 1, 2, 3, and 7 covering 273 line‐km. The costs are the costs of reproduction and shipping, only. The COCORP operation is part of the U.S. Geodynamics Program sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and funded by the National Science Foundation. The executive group of the consortium consists of representatives from Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, Rice University, and the University of Wisconsin. Cornell University is the operating institution. The line locations for the two areas are shown in Figure 1. Also shown is Nevada line 8 which is not yet ready for distribution but which will be part of the N. Cal‐Nevada package to be issued shortly. Petty‐Ray was the contractor for the data acquisition. Processing was done on the Megaseis system at Cornell by students and staff of the Department of Geological Sciences.

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Biasi, Glenn, Mohammed Saeed Mohammed, and David H. Sanders. "Earthquake Damage Estimations: ShakeCast Case Study on Nevada Bridges." Earthquake Spectra 33, no. 1 (February 2017): 45–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/121815eqs185m.

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This case study evaluates the vulnerability of Nevada bridges relative to earthquake hazard using two different methods. First, a distributed set of 112 realistic earthquake scenarios were processed with USGS program ShakeMap, and site-specific ground motion levels extracted for 1831 bridges in Nevada using ShakeCast. Second, using hazard curves underlying the 2014 USGS National Seismic Hazard Map (NSHM), return periods for earthquakes causing extensive damage to bridges were extracted and compared to the 1000-year design level adopted by the AASHTO. Lower capacities than those used in ShakeCast were proposed for five continuous bridge types based on a literature review. Scenarios provide points in a deterministic seismic hazard approach, with large earthquakes on known faults. NSHM hazard curves are based on a probabilistic approach. A graphical method is presented to unite the two approaches. A list of potentially vulnerable bridges was developed for Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) use in bridge retrofit planning. As a continuing benefit, ShakeCast now operates in Nevada to provide near-real-time inspection priorities in the event of a serious earthquake.

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Gruss, Valerie, and Memoona Hasnain. "ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF INCARCERATED INMATES WITH DEMENTIA: CREATING DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY PRISONS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S433. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1620.

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Abstract U.S. prisons are experiencing a graying of their population, with many older inmates experiencing chronic conditions, including dementia. Older prisoners now represent 10% of the U.S. prison population and 18% of Illinois’ prison population. Aging inmates cost more to incarcerate due to their medical needs. Bureau of Prisons data estimate $881 million (19%) of its budget was spent to incarcerate aging inmates. Prisons are seeking solutions to address the unmet needs of older inmates, especially those with dementia. These older inmates with dementia face discrimination and exploitation within the prison population, and Correction Officers and clinicians lack training to understand and address their complex needs. Utilizing the Alzheimer’s Association’s, ACT on Alzheimer’s Toolkit we implemented four phases guiding communities’ adoption of dementia-friendly practices: we convened meetings with Illinois Department of Correction leaders, assessed community strengths and gaps by surveying prison wardens, analyzed findings and created an action plan to provide dementia training of prison staff to create a dementia friendly community. Our “Dementia-Friendly Prisons” program trains prison staff on understanding and providing supportive care and management to inmates with dementia, enabling staff to meet inmates’ needs, thereby creating an environment where inmates with dementia are safe and treated respectfully. Our program used an Appreciative Inquiry Four-D cycle approach (Discover-Dream-Design-Destiny) to engage and empower learners from a highly diverse workforce to develop into collaborative teams. Our program remedies a problem in the delivery of prison healthcare, serving a particularly vulnerable population and creates an adaptable model for other prisons and communities.

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Sipahi, Ali. "Convict Labor in Turkey, 1936–1953: A Capitalist Corporation in the State?" International Labor and Working-Class History 90 (2016): 244–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547916000144.

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AbstractThe article proposes the institutional analysis of convict labor as an alternative to both (profit-oriented) economic and (discipline-oriented) political explanations. The specialized labor-based prisons in Turkey from 1936 to 1953 are brought to light by archival research and are presented here as a rich case to discuss the experiential/subjective conditions of unfree labor regimes and the structural effects of institutions on the convicts’ experiences. I argue that the state department responsible for prison labor in Turkey was transformed into a capitalist corporation with bureaucratic management, and the target of convict labor system was neither profit nor discipline, but the creation of the corporate bureaucracy itself. As a consequence, both for prisoners and for the prison staff, labor-based prisons appeared as privileged places. Hence, unfree labor was volunteered.

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Kamath, Jayesh, Wanli Zhang, Karen Kesten, Sara Wakai, Deborah Shelton, and Robert Trestman. "Algorithm-Driven Pharmacological Management of Bipolar Disorder in Connecticut Prisons." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 57, no. 2 (November 24, 2011): 251–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x11427537.

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The objective of this study was to assess adaptation of the Texas Implementation of Medication Algorithm (TIMA) for bipolar disorder (BD) in the Connecticut Department of Correction. A nonrandomized sample of 20 males and 20 females, with diagnoses of BD Type I or II, was enrolled in the study. Two TIMA-trained psychiatrists treated the participants over a 12-week period following the TIMA protocol. The primary outcome measure was the Bipolar Disorder Symptom Scale. Secondary outcome measures evaluated global clinical status, comorbid symptomatology, and quality of life. Significant improvement was seen with the primary and secondary outcome measures ( p < .001). Subanalyses showed differences in outcomes based on gender and whether a manic or depression algorithm was used. Antidepressant and antipsychotic medication use decreased, with increase in anticonvulsant and anxiolytic medication usage. This pilot study confirmed the effectiveness and benefits of TIMA for BD adaptation in the correctional setting.

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Paz, Alexander, Hanns de la Fuente-Mella, Ashok Singh, Rebecca Conover, and Heather Monteiro. "Highway Expenditures and Associated Customer Satisfaction: A Case Study." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2016 (2016): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4630492.

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This study analyzes the satisfaction of the Nevadans with respect to their highway transportation system and the corresponding expenditures of Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT). A survey questionnaire was designed to capture the opinions of the Nevadans (customers) about a number of characteristics of their transportation system. Data from the financial data warehouse of the NDOT was used to evaluate expenditures. Multinomial probit models were estimated to study the correlations between customers’ opinion and the government expenditures in transportation. The results indicate the customer satisfaction is decreasing with respect to traffic safety throughout Northwestern and Southern Nevada highways. In addition, users of Northwestern highways are more likely to be satisfied, compared to their counterparts, with increasing construction spending to reduce the time taken to complete construction projects. In Southern Nevada highways, customers’ satisfaction increases with the expenditures associated with reduction of congestion. These insights are examples of the conclusions that were obtained as a consequence of simultaneously considering customer satisfaction and the corresponding expenditures in transportation.

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Fernández-Rodríguez, Camilo, Javier Racero, and Armando Calvano-Zúñiga. "New records of Jaguar (Panthera onca) in the department of Cesar, Colombia." Mammalogy Notes 6, no. 1 (July 23, 2020): mn0119. http://dx.doi.org/10.47603/manovol6n1.mn0119.

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We present new records of Jaguar (Panthera onca) from the department of Cesar, in the Caribbean region of Colombia. In addition, we report some incidents of deaths due to illegal hunting and vehicle collision in two important conservation zones: the Serranía del Perijá and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. These records are the result of biodiversity assessments and conservation projects of the wildlife Network Program of CORPOCESAR and constitute an effort to document the distribution and the conflict between humans and jaguars for the northernmost populations of the country.

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Bemanian, Sohila, Patty Polish, and Gayle Maurer. "Cold In-Place Recycling and Full-Depth Reclamation Projects by Nevada Department of Transportation." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1949, no. 1 (January 2006): 54–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198106194900106.

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MARTINEZ, LEONEL, and WILLIAM GALVIS. "Three new species of jumping spiders of the genus Hypaeus Simon, 1900 from Colombia (Salticidae: Salticinae: Amycini)." Zootaxa 4282, no. 1 (June 23, 2017): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4282.1.12.

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Three new jumping spiders of the genus Hypaeus Simon, 1900 are described and illustrated from Colombia, two of which are sympatric: H. arhuaco sp. nov. and H. proszynskii sp. nov., from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena department. The third species, H. varzea sp. nov., is described from a várzea forest in the Amazonas department. The new species are diagnosed based on sexual characters, such as the retrolateral tibial apophysis, retroventral tibial apophysis and the embolus (male palp), and length and disposition of the copulatory ducts and digitiform glands (epigyne).

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Meza-Joya, Fabio Leonardo. "First record of Ninia atrata (Hallowell, 1845) (Squamata: Colubridae) from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, northern Colombia." Check List 11, no. 2 (February 18, 2015): 1584. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/11.2.1584.

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The current work provides the first confirmed record of Ninia atrata in the northern foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, La Guajira department, Colombia. This record extends the Colombian known species’ distribution ca. 320 km NW from the northernmost record and represents the first observation of the species in the Caribbean Region of Colombia.

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Lane, Michael P. "A Case for Early Release." Crime & Delinquency 32, no. 4 (October 1986): 399–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128786032004003.

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The Illinois Department of Corrections includes 18 operating prisons, 16 community correctional centers, and 7 work camps with more than 19,200 adults in custody; 7 juvenile facilities housing 1,200 committed youths; adult and juvenile parole systems with more than 11,000 people under supervision; and support divisions. With an annual budget of more than $400,000, Director Lane manages an agency that employs 10,100 staff to meet the custody needs of more than 31,000 offenders.

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Каримова, Гузель, and Рим Каримов. "ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF WITNESS PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." Rule-of-law state: theory and practice 16, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 162–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.33184/pravgos-2020.1.18.

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The article examines organizational and legal aspects of the implementation of the witness protection program in the United States. Special attention is paid to activities in this area of the US Department of Justice, the US Marshals Service, which directly provide protection for witnesses and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Some statistics on witness protection are provided. Concrete protective measures and their application in relation to the participants in criminal proceedings are considered.

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Sebaaly, Peter E., Stephen Lani, Sohila Bemanian, and Christopher Cocking. "Flexible Pavement Overlays: The State Experience." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1568, no. 1 (January 1997): 139–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1568-17.

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The design and construction of flexible overlays has become a popular exercise. However, there is not a simple, straightforward, and yet reliable design procedure that the design engineer can implement on a routine basis. The data needed for overlay design are not easily accessible to the design engineer, and yet the accessible data are not fully reliable in most cases. The process by which the design engineers at the Nevada Department of Transportation handle overlay design is presented. The various steps followed and the obstacles that the design engineer encounters in the search for the necessary data and the final design process are described. Major assumptions must be made along the way that could significantly affect the final design. Three case studies are presented. Each project was designed using three different design methods, including the AASHTO nondestructive testing method, the AASHTO condition survey method, and the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) mechanistic overlay design method. All three methods used the same data gathered by the design engineer for each project. The analysis indicates that there is a significant discrepancy between the two AASHTO methods, whereas the NDOT method and the AASHTO condition survey method agreed on one project.

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Pizzicato, Lia N., Rebecca Drake, Reed Domer-Shank, Caroline C. Johnson, and Kendra M. Viner. "Beyond the walls: Risk factors for overdose mortality following release from the Philadelphia Department of Prisons." Drug and Alcohol Dependence 189 (August 2018): 108–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.04.034.

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Zhou, Wenlian, Pearl Kim, Jay J. Shen, Joseph Greenway, and Marcia Ditmyer. "Preventable Emergency Department Visits for Nontraumatic Dental Conditions: Trends and Disparities in Nevada, 2009–2015." American Journal of Public Health 108, no. 3 (March 2018): 369–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2017.304242.

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de la Fuente-Mella, Hanns, Alexander Paz-Cruz, Rebecca Conover, and Alauddin Khan. "Forecasting of Financial Series for the Nevada Department of Transportation Using Deterministic and Stochastic Methodologies." Procedia Manufacturing 3 (2015): 3317–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.419.

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Lucas, Kimberley D., Joseph Bick, and Janet C. Mohle-Boetani. "California’s Prisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act." Public Health Reports 135, no. 1_suppl (July 2020): 50S—56S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033354920920629.

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In 2014, California passed Assembly Bill 966, which required condom access for persons incarcerated in all 35 California state prisons (33 men’s and 2 women’s prisons). The California Correctional Health Care Services and the Sexually Transmitted Disease Control Branch and the Office of AIDS of the California Department of Public Health collaborated in a prison administration–led multidisciplinary implementation workgroup. Our workgroup, representing public health, correctional health, legal and legislative affairs, labor relations, and prison staff members, participated in 4 planning meetings during May–September 2015. We surveyed prison staff members and incarcerated men to identify and address potential challenges; conceptualized a tamper-resistant condom dispenser; developed educational materials, frequently asked questions for staff members, and fact sheets for the public; and conducted forums for custody and medical staff members at each prison. Key lessons learned included the need for high-level custody support, engagement of labor unions early in the decision-making process, and flexibility within defined parameters for sites to determine best practices given their unique institutional population, culture, and physical layout. Condom access was initiated at 4 prisons in July 2015 and expanded incrementally to the remaining 29 men’s prisons through July 2016. A total of 243 563 condoms were accessed in the men’s prisons, for an average of 354 condoms per 1000 population per month. The start-up dispenser cost was $69 825 (735 dispensers at $95 each). We estimated an annual condom cost of $0.60 per person. Although staff members and incarcerated men expressed concern that this legislation would condone sex and provide repositories for contraband, no serious adverse incidents involving condoms were reported. California demonstrated that condom access is a safe, low-cost intervention with high uptake for a large correctional system and provided a replicable implementation model for other states. Prison condom programs have the potential to decrease transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among incarcerated persons and their communities, which are often disproportionately affected by STIs, HIV, and other chronic diseases.

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Meza-Joya, Fabio Leonardo. "New records of Amphisbaena medemi Gans & Mathers, 1977 (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from the Caribbean region of northern Colombia." Check List 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 1526. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/11.1.1526.

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This report extends the distribution range of Amphisbaena medemi to the southeast foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and western foothills of the Serranía del Perijá in La Guajira department, Colombia. These records offer a more detailed picture of the species’ distributional range along the Caribbean region of Colombia and represent the first observation of the species in a transitional zone between dry and moist tropical forest.

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Azbel, Lyuba, Yevgeny Grishaev, Jeffrey A. Wickersham, Olena Chernova, Sergey Dvoryak, Maxim Polonsky, and Frederick L. Altice. "Trials and tribulations of conducting bio-behavioral surveys in prisons: implementation science and lessons from Ukraine." International Journal of Prisoner Health 12, no. 2 (June 13, 2016): 78–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijph-10-2014-0041.

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Purpose – Ukraine is home to Europe’s worst HIV epidemic, overwhelmingly fueled by people who inject drugs who face harsh prison sentences. In Ukraine, HIV and other infectious diseases are concentrated in prisons, yet the magnitude of this problem had not been quantified. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the systematic health survey of prisoners in the former Soviet Union (FSU). Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative interviews were carried out with research and prison administrative staff to assess the barriers and facilitators to conducting a bio-behavioral survey in Ukrainian prisons. Findings – Crucial barriers at the institutional, staff, and participant level require addressing by: first, ensuring Prison Department involvement at every stage; second, tackling pre-conceived attitudes about drug addiction and treatment among staff; and third, guaranteeing confidentiality for participants. Originality/value – The burden of many diseases is higher than expected and much higher than in the community. Notwithstanding the challenges, scientifically rigorous bio-behavioral surveys are attainable in criminal justice systems in the FSU with collaboration and careful consideration of this specific context.

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Anderson, Kimberly, and Jessica Maddox. "Surveying as Unsettlement: The Protocols Alignment Survey at the University of Nevada, Reno." American Archivist 84, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 34–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-84.1.34.

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ABSTRACT This article describes a collections survey project undertaken by the staff of the University Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, to begin the archives' alignment with the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials. The method devised to survey the collection is assessed for its validity and potential application to further survey work. The analysis of the Protocols alignment survey as a case study also offers insights about critical self-reflection and ways for non-Indigenous archivists to strive toward social justice and Protocols alignment using existing discovery and description frameworks as a starting point.

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Kubiak, Sheryl Pimlott, Hannah Brenner, Deborah Bybee, Rebecca Campbell, and Gina Fedock. "Reporting Sexual Victimization During Incarceration: Using Ecological Theory as a Framework to Inform and Guide Future Research." Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 19, no. 1 (March 8, 2016): 94–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524838016637078.

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The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that between 149,200 and 209,400 incidents of sexual victimization occur annually in prisons and jails. However, very few individuals experiencing sexual victimization during incarceration report these incidents to correctional authorities. Federal-level policy recommendations derived from the Prison Rape Elimination Act suggest mechanisms for improving reporting as well as standards for the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of prison-based sexual victimization. Despite these policy recommendations, sexual assault persists in prisons and jails, with only 8% of prisoners who experience sexual assault reporting their victimization. This review focuses on gaps in the existing research about what factors influence whether adult victims in incarcerated systems will report that they have been sexually assaulted. Using ecological theory to guide this review, various levels of social ecology are incorporated, illuminating a variety of factors influencing the reporting of sexual victimization during incarceration. These factors include the role of individual-level behavior, assault characteristics, the unique aspects and processes of the prison system, and the social stigma that surrounds individuals involved in the criminal/legal system. This review concludes with recommendations for future research, policy, and practice, informed by an ecological conceptualization of reporting.

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Birmingham, Luke. "Screening prisoners for psychiatric illness: who benefits?" Psychiatric Bulletin 25, no. 12 (December 2001): 462–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.25.12.462.

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Until recently the provision of health care within prisons was the sole responsibility of the prison service. The Prison Health Service (formerly known as the Prison Medical Service) is the oldest civilian medical service in Britain. In addition to being much older than the NHS the Prison Health Service is much smaller, less well developed and less well resourced. Prison health care was coordinated by the Directorate of Health Care at the Home Office; the Department of Health and the NHS had no direct input. As a result, prisoners were afforded a standard of health care well below that provided by the NHS, and without radical reform there was little prospect of improvement. However, in recent years things have begun to change and last year collaboration between the prison service and the NHS resulted in the creation of a partnership between these two organisations (Joint Prison Service and NHS Executive Working Group, 1999). Although the intention is to improve health care standards for prisoners, the formal nature of this partnership also has the effect of making the NHS more directly responsible for health care in prisons.

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Holliday, Mitchel K., and Kelli M. Richardson. "Nutrition in Midwestern State Department of Corrections Prisons: A Comparison of Nutritional Offerings With Commonly Utilized Nutritional Standards." Journal of Correctional Health Care 27, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 154–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/jchc.19.08.0067.

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Brinded, Philip M. J., Alexander I. F. Simpson, Tannis M. Laidlaw, Nigel Fairley, and Fiona Malcolm. "Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders in New Zealand Prisons: A National Study." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 35, no. 2 (April 2001): 166–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1614.2001.00885.x.

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Objective: The paper describes the methodologies and results obtained on a large cohort of prison inmates in New Zealand who were screened for psychiatric disorder. Method: All women and remanded male inmates in New Zealand prisons, and a randomly selected cohort of 18% of sentenced male inmates were interviewed. Interviewers used the Composite International Diagnostic Interview –Automated to establish DSM-IV diagnoses, and the Personality Disorders Questionnaire to identify personality disorder. All prisons in New Zealand were visited. Results: The results indicate markedly elevated prevalence rates for major mental disorder in the prison population when compared with community samples. This is especially the case for substance misuse, psychotic disorders, major depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. Of particular concern is not only the increased prevalence rates for schizophrenia and related disorders but also the high level of comorbidity with substance misuse disorders demonstrated by this group. While 80.8% of inmates diagnosed with bipolar disorder were receiving psychiatric treatment in the prison, only 46.4% of depressed inmates and 37% of those suffering from psychosis were receiving treatment. Maori inmates were grossly overrepresented in the remand, female and male sentenced inmate population compared with the general population. Conclusions: A significant increase in provision of mental health services is required to cope with the high number of mentally ill inmates. The level of need demonstrated by this study requires a level of service provision that is quite beyond the capacity of current forensic psychiatry services, Department of Corrections Psychological Services or the prison nursing and medical officers. The elevated rates of common mental disorders argues for the use of improved psychiatric screening instruments, improved assessment and treatment capacities in the prison and an increased number of forensic psychiatric inpatient facilities to care for those psychotic inmates who are too unwell to be treated in the prison.

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Butler, Amanda, Alexander D. Love, Jesse T. Young, and Stuart A. Kinner. "Frequent Attendance to the Emergency Department after Release from Prison: a Prospective Data Linkage Study." Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 47, no. 4 (December 9, 2019): 544–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11414-019-09685-1.

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AbstractThe aim of this paper was to identify characteristics and predictors of frequent emergency department (ED) use among people released from prisons in Queensland, Australia. Baseline interview data from a sample of sentenced adults were linked to ED and hospital records. The association between baseline characteristics and frequent ED attendance was modelled by fitting multivariate logistic regression models. Participants who had ≥ 4 visits to the ED in any 365-day period of community follow-up were defined as frequent attenders (FA). The analyses included 1307 people and mean follow-up time in the community was 1063 days. After adjusting for covariates, those with a dual diagnoses of mental illness and substance use (RR = 2.42, 95% CI 1.47–3.99) and those with mental illness alone (RR = 2.47, 95% CI 1.29–4.73) were at higher risk of frequent ED attendance, compared with those with no disorder. Future research should assess whether individually tailored transition supports from prison to community reduce the frequency of ED use among this population.

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Assoumou, Sabrina A., Abriana Tasillo, Claudia Vellozzi, Golnaz Eftekhari Yazdi, Jianing Wang, Shayla Nolen, Liesl Hagan, et al. "Cost-effectiveness and Budgetary Impact of Hepatitis C Virus Testing, Treatment, and Linkage to Care in US Prisons." Clinical Infectious Diseases 70, no. 7 (May 16, 2019): 1388–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz383.

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Abstract Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing and treatment uptake in prisons remains low. We aimed to estimate clinical outcomes, cost-effectiveness (CE), and budgetary impact (BI) of HCV testing and treatment in United States (US) prisons or linkage to care at release. Methods We used individual-based simulation modeling with healthcare and Department of Corrections (DOC) perspectives for CE and BI analyses, respectively. We simulated a US prison cohort at entry using published data and Washington State DOC individual-level data. We considered permutations of testing (risk factor based, routine at entry or at release, no testing), treatment (if liver fibrosis stage ≥F3, for all HCV infected or no treatment), and linkage to care (at release or no linkage). Outcomes included quality-adjusted life-years (QALY); cases identified, treated, and cured; cirrhosis cases avoided; incremental cost-effectiveness ratios; DOC costs (2016 US dollars); and BI (healthcare cost/prison entrant) to generalize to other states. Results Compared to “no testing, no treatment, and no linkage to care,” the “test all, treat all, and linkage to care at release” model increased the lifetime sustained virologic response by 23%, reduced cirrhosis cases by 54% at a DOC annual additional cost of $1440 per prison entrant, and would be cost-effective. At current drug prices, targeted testing and liver fibrosis–based treatment provided worse outcomes at higher cost or worse outcomes at higher cost per QALY gained. In sensitivity analysis, fibrosis-based treatment restrictions were cost-effective at previous higher drug costs. Conclusions Although costly, widespread testing and treatment in prisons is considered to be of good value at current drug prices.

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Greider, Thomas. "Theory and Empowerment in Cultural Consultation Programs." Practicing Anthropology 16, no. 3 (July 1, 1994): 7–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.16.3.v30u71242u570477.

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For four years after receiving my Ph.D., I was employed by a large consulting firm. One of our principal clients was the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) high-level radioactive waste repository program at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. As the primary planning and regulatory contractor for their project office in Las Vegas, we wrote and sometimes implemented plans for studies of the Yucca Mountain site and for compliance with environmental regulations. Employees of our firm were as close as possible to being insiders within the project office while not being directly employed by DOE.

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Dublyansky, Y. V. "Evaluation of the US DOE's conceptual model of hydrothermal activity at Yucca Mountain, Nevada." Geoscientific Model Development Discussions 5, no. 4 (November 23, 2012): 3853–905. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmdd-5-3853-2012.

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Abstract. A unique conceptual model envisaging conductive heating of rocks in the thick unsaturated zone of Yucca Mountain, Nevada by a silicic pluton emplaced several kilometers away is accepted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) as an explanation of the elevated depositional temperatures measured in fluid inclusions in secondary fluorite and calcite. Acceptance of this model allowed the DOE not to consider hydrothermal activity in the performance assessment of the proposed high-level nuclear waste disposal facility. Evaluation shows that validation of the model by computational modeling and by observations at a natural analog site was unsuccessful. Due to the lack of validation, the reliance on this model must be discontinued and the scientific defensibility of decisions which rely on this model must be re-evaluated.

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Habbouche, Jhony, Elie Y. Hajj, Peter E. Sebaaly, and Nathan E. Morian. "Damage Assessment for ME Rehabilitation Design of Modified Asphalt Pavements: Challenges and Findings." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2672, no. 40 (June 5, 2018): 228–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198118777090.

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The overall objective of this study was to assess the use of Level 1 analysis for mechanistic-empirical (ME) rehabilitation designs of deteriorated polymer-modified asphalt concrete (AC) pavements in Nevada using the AASHTOWare® Pavement ME software. This research also explored the possible implementation of a hybrid approach for AC damage characterization to overcome the challenges associated with the use of the Witczak model for estimating the undamaged dynamic modulus master curve of the existing AC layer. Two rehabilitation field projects were used as part of this study. The experimental plan involved falling weight deflectometer (FWD) testing in the right wheelpath before rehabilitation, analysis of core samples, estimation of an equivalent undamaged dynamic modulus, and estimation of equivalent damaged dynamic modulus from FWD backcalculation. The proposed hybrid approach consisted of conducting laboratory dynamic modulus testing on the collected core samples and estimating an equivalent undamaged dynamic modulus at the same FWD testing temperature and loading frequency. The pre-overlay damage, characterized based on the approach in Pavement ME Design software (i.e., using a Witczak prediction model and backcalculated modulus), showed overly high values that did not match with the collected pre-overlay distress data on either of the rehabilitation projects. Based on the findings from this study, the hybrid approach was recommended for implementation by Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) when designing AC overlay over polymer-modified asphalt pavements in Nevada. Recommendations for user inputs were also provided for future consideration in Pavement ME Design software.

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SCHNEIDER, J. L., P. L. WHITE, J. WEISS, D. NORTON, J. LIDGARD, L. H. GOULD, B. YEE, D. J. VUGIA, and J. MOHLE-BOETANI. "Multistate Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella Newport Infections Associated with Ground Beef, October to December 2007." Journal of Food Protection 74, no. 8 (August 1, 2011): 1315–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x.jfp-11-046.

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In late October 2007, an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Newport infections affected 42 case patients in California, Arizona, Idaho, and Nevada. A case-control study implicated ground beef from one chain store. Despite detailed ground beef purchase histories—including shopper card information for several case patients—traceback efforts by both the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service and the California Department of Public Health were unable to identify the source of contamination. Case patients consumed multiple types of ground beef products purchased at numerous chain store A retail locations. These stores had received beef products for grinding from multiple beef slaughter–processing establishments. Detailed retail grinding logs and grinding policies that prevent cross-contamination between batches of ground beef products are crucial in the identification of contaminated beef products associated with foodborne illness.

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Myers, Helen, Leonie Segal, Derrick Lopez, Ian W. Li, and David B. Preen. "Impact of family-friendly prison policies on health, justice and child protection outcomes for incarcerated mothers and their dependent children: a cohort study protocol." BMJ Open 7, no. 8 (August 2017): e016302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016302.

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IntroductionFemale imprisonment has numerous health and social sequelae for both women prisoners and their children. Examples of comprehensive family-friendly prison policies that seek to improve the health and social functioning of women prisoners and their children exist but have not been evaluated. This study will determine the impact of exposure to a family-friendly prison environment on health, child protection and justice outcomes for incarcerated mothers and their dependent children.Methods and analysisA longitudinal retrospective cohort design will be used to compare outcomes for mothers incarcerated at Boronia Pre-release Centre, a women’s prison with a dedicated family-friendly environment, and their dependent children, with outcomes for mothers incarcerated at other prisons in Western Australia (that do not offer this environment) and their dependent children. Routinely collected administrative data from 1985 to 2013 will be used to determine child and mother outcomes such as hospital admissions, emergency department presentations, custodial sentences, community service orders and placement in out-of home care. The sample consists of all children born in Western Australia between 1 January 1985 and 31 December 2011 who had a mother in a West Australian prison between 1990 and 2012 and their mothers. Children are included if they were alive and aged less than 18 years at the time of their mother’s incarceration. The sample comprises an exposed group of 665 women incarcerated at Boronia and their 1714 dependent children and a non-exposed comparison sample of 2976 women incarcerated at other West Australian prisons and their 7186 dependent children, creating a total study sample of 3641 women and 8900 children.Ethics and disseminationThis project received ethics approval from the Western Australian Department of Health Human Research Ethics Committee, the Western Australian Aboriginal Health Ethics Committee and the University of Western Australia Human Research Ethics Committee.

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Young, Jesse T., Cheneal Puljević, Alexander D. Love, Emilia K. Janca, Catherine J. Segan, Donita Baird, Rachel Whiffen, Stan Pappos, Emma Bell, and Stuart A. Kinner. "Staying Quit After Release (SQuARe) trial protocol: a randomised controlled trial of a multicomponent intervention to maintain smoking abstinence after release from smoke-free prisons in Victoria, Australia." BMJ Open 9, no. 6 (June 2019): e027307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027307.

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IntroductionSmoke-free policies have been introduced in prisons internationally. However, high rates of relapse to smoking after release from prison indicate that these policies typically result in short-term smoking cessation only. These high rates of relapse, combined with a lack of investment in relapse prevention, highlight a missed opportunity to improve the health of a population who smoke tobacco at two to six times the rate of the general population. This paper describes the rationale and design of a randomised controlled trial, testing the effectiveness of a caseworker-delivered intervention promoting smoking cessation among former smokers released from smoke-free prisons in Victoria, Australia.Methods and analysisThe multicomponent, brief intervention consists of behavioural counselling, provision of nicotine spray and referral to Quitline and primary care to promote use of government-subsidised smoking cessation pharmacotherapy. The intervention is embedded in routine service delivery and is administered at three time points: one prerelease and two postrelease from prison. Control group participants will receive usual care. Smoking abstinence will be assessed at 1 and 3 months postrelease, and confirmed with carbon monoxide breath testing. Linkage of participant records to survey and routinely collected administrative data will provide further information on postrelease use of health services and prescribed medication.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval has been obtained from the Corrections Victoria Research Committee, the Victorian Department of Justice Human Research Ethics Committee, the Department of Human Services External Request Evaluation Committee and the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee. Results will be submitted to major international health-focused journals. In case of success, findings will assist policymakers to implement urgently needed interventions promoting the maintenance of prison-initiated smoking abstinence after release, to reduce the health disparities experienced by this marginalised population.Trial registration numberACTRN12618000072213; Pre-results.

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Willison, Judith S. "Characteristics of Violent Crime Committed by Female Prisoners." Violence and Victims 31, no. 3 (2016): 552–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-14-00027.

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This study expands limited existing knowledge of the characteristics of violent crimes for which women in state prisons are incarcerated. An analysis was conducted utilizing survey data collected from female state prisoners by the U.S. Department of Justice for the Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilities, 2004. The randomly selected, national sample consisted of 866 female state prisoners. Results suggest that the majority of the violent offenses occurred within the context of a relationship with the victim, most often in a domestic setting, and were influenced by the presence or absence of co-defendants. In addition, the use of weapons was infrequent and often defensive. Implications for practice in violence prevention, prison-based, and reentry services are discussed.

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Loeliger, Kelsey B., Frederick L. Altice, Mayur M. Desai, Maria M. Ciarleglio, Colleen Gallagher, and Jaimie P. Meyer. "Predictors of Linkage to and Retention in HIV Care Following Release from Connecticut Jails and Prisons." Open Forum Infectious Diseases 4, suppl_1 (2017): S38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx162.092.

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Abstract Background One in six people living with HIV (PLH) in the USA transition through prison or jail annually. During incarceration, people may engage in HIV care, but transition to the community remains challenging. Linkage to care (LTC) post-release and retention in care (RIC) are necessary to optimizing HIV outcomes, but have been incompletely assessed in prior observational studies. Methods We created a retrospective cohort of all PLH released from a Connecticut jail or prison (2007–2014) by linking Department of Correction demographic, pharmacy, and custody databases with Department of Public Health HIV surveillance monitoring and case management data. We assessed time to LTC, defined as time from release to first community HIV-1 RNA test, and viral suppression status at time of linkage. We used generalized estimating equations to identify correlates of LTC within 14 or 30 days after release. We also described RIC over three years following an initial release, comparing recidivists to non-recidivists. Results Among 3,302 incarceration periods from 1,350 unique PLH, 21% and 34% had LTC within 14 and 30 days, respectively, of which >25% had detectable viremia at time of linkage. Independent correlates of LTC at 14 days included incarceration periods >30 days (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.6; P < 0.001), higher medical comorbidity (AOR = 1.8; P < 0.001), antiretrovirals prescribed before release (AOR = 1.5; P = 0.001), transitional case management (AOR = 1.5; P < 0.001), re-incarceration (AOR = 0.7; P = 0.002) and conditional release (AOR = 0.6; P < 0.001). The 30-day model additionally included psychiatric comorbidity (AOR = 1.3; P = 0.016) and release on bond (AOR = 0.7; P = 0.033). Among 1,094 PLH eligible for 3-year follow-up, RIC after release declined over 1 year (67%), 2 years (51%) and 3 years (42%). Recidivists were more likely than nonrecidivists to have RIC but, among those retained, were less likely to be virally suppressed (Figure 1). Conclusion For incarcerated PLH, both LTC and RIC as well as viral suppression are suboptimal after release. PLH who receive case management are more likely to have timely LTC. Targeted interventions and integrated programming aligning health and criminal justice goals may improve post-release HIV treatment outcomes. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.

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Dublyansky, Y. V. "Evaluation of the US DOE's conceptual model of hydrothermal activity at Yucca Mountain, Nevada." Geoscientific Model Development 7, no. 4 (August 4, 2014): 1583–607. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-1583-2014.

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Abstract. A unique conceptual model describing the conductive heating of rocks in the thick unsaturated zone of Yucca Mountain, Nevada by a silicic pluton emplaced several kilometers away is accepted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) as an explanation of the elevated depositional temperatures measured in fluid inclusions in secondary fluorite and calcite. Acceptance of this model allowed the DOE to keep from considering hydrothermal activity in the performance assessment of the proposed high-level nuclear waste disposal facility. The evaluation presented in this paper shows that no computational modeling results have yet produced a satisfactory match with the empirical benchmark data, specifically with age and fluid inclusion data that indicate high temperatures (up to ca. 80 °C) in the unsaturated zone of Yucca Mountain. Auxiliary sub-models complementing the DOE model, as well as observations at a natural analog site, have also been evaluated. Summarily, the model cannot be considered as validated. Due to the lack of validation, the reliance on this model must be discontinued and the appropriateness of decisions which rely on this model must be re-evaluated.

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CAMPOS, MARTHA R., and ROSA CAMACHO. "A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Strengeriana Pretzmann, 1971, from El Jardín Natural Reserve, Quindío, Colombia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae)." Zootaxa 4671, no. 4 (September 19, 2019): 595–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4671.4.11.

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A new species of Strengeriana Pretzmann, 1971, is described from the El Jardín Natural Reserve, Quindío Department, Colombia, on the western slope of the Central Andes. The genus is endemic to Colombia and is distributed in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and the Western and Central Andes, at elevations ranging from 700 to 2400 m. With the addition of the new species, Strengeriana now includes 17 species. Strengeriana quindiensis n. sp. is distinguished from its congeners mainly by the exopod of the third maxilliped being 0.92 times the length of the ischium and by the morphology of the first male gonopod, particularly the shapes of the mesial and lateral processes.

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Kim, Pearl C., Ji Won Yoo, Chris R. Cochran, Seong-Min Park, Sungyoun Chun, Yong-Jae Lee, and Jay J. Shen. "Trends and associated factors of use of opioid, heroin, and cannabis among patients for emergency department visits in Nevada." Medicine 98, no. 47 (November 2019): e17739. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000017739.

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Adler, Jessica L., Weiwei Chen, and Timothy F. Page. "Transitions in “Privatized” Prison Health Systems: Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Among Incarcerated People in Florida, 2011–2018." American Journal of Public Health 111, no. 5 (May 2021): 965–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2020.305988.

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Objectives. To examine rates of emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations among incarcerated people in Florida during a period when health care management in the state’s prisons underwent transitions. Methods. We used Florida ED visit and hospital discharge data (2011–2018) to depict the trend in ED visit and hospital discharge rates among incarcerated people. We proxied incarcerated people using individuals admitted from and discharged or transferred to a court or law enforcement agency. We fitted a regression with year indicators to examine the significance of yearly changes. Results. Among incarcerated people in Florida, ED visit rates quadrupled, and hospitalization rates doubled, between 2015 and 2018, a period when no similar trends were evident in the nonincarcerated population. Public Health Implications. Increasing the amount and flexibility of payments to contractors overseeing prison health services may foster higher rates of hospital utilization among incarcerated people and higher costs, without addressing major quality of care problems. Hospitals and government agencies should transparently report on health care utilization and outcomes among incarcerated people to ensure better oversight of services for a highly vulnerable population.

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