Title: Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates - BohatALA
Headings: Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates
Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates
Introduction
Some Important Guidelines
The Main Issues
Conclusion
References

Content: The main reason for the use of drugs by the prisoners is that they used it as an escape from social pressures. The authorities have to implement separate action plan for elderly prisoners. “ Outside prison, the development of specialist services for older offenders could be considered. In the UK, a number of authors have considered the development of supra regional medium – security units, which may be able to focus their treatment regimens more appropriately to older offenders and provide a safer setting. In particular, the admission of older individuals with dementia to normal medium and low security units would be problematic as the medical and allied healthcare staff would have had little training and experience in dealing with such patients”. ( Jacoby. R. et al., 2008)
To avoid the incidence of HIV in prisoners the world health organization recommends distribution of condoms in prison. While during drug treatment the injecting equipments are cleaned to avoid transmission of diseases. In some jails the risk of infectious disease, HIV infection and hepatitis C is very high.