HIV, Aids and Prisons
This report details the dilemmas HIV and AIDS cause in prisons and recommends positive steps that can be taken to reduce the risk while inside, and on release from prison.

Price: £2.95  ISBN: 0 946209 12 X -1988 

HIV and hepatitis in UK prisons: addressing prisoners' healthcare needs
A report by the Prison Reform Trust and the National AIDS Trust

Prisons are breeding grounds for blood-borne viruses because they hold, in overcrowded and adverse conditions, a population with previous experience of high risk behaviour. This report, the first of its kind, draws on the findings of a survey of healthcare managers in prisons in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The conclusions of the report are unequivocal: prisons' current policy and practice varies greatly between establishments. Overall they are failing to meet the needs of prisoners living with or at risk of HIV and other blood-borne viruses. Every prison should have a clear policy on HIV and hepatitis C. An agreed framework of best practice for prevention, treatment and care in relation to HIV and hepatitis C, based on the principles of harm minimisation, should be applied in all places of detention in the United Kingdom.

Price: £7.50     ISBN: 0 946209 79 0 - 2005

Principles for Practical Drugs Policies: The Case for a Slow Fix

In this pamphlet, which reproduces the 1999 PRT Annual Lecture, Professor Mark Kleiman outlines what will, and what will not, work to reduce the harm caused by drugs misuse.

Price £5.95    ISBN 0 946209 47 2 - 1999

Troubled Inside: Responding to the Mental Health Needs of Men in Prison
Dora Rickford & Kimmett Edgar

This report examines why men who have serious mental health problems end up in prison. It shows how the early warning system of court diversion and liaison schemes has broken down. It explores the lack of mental health care for the majority of prisoners, who have less serious, but nonetheless debilitating, mental health problems. Particular topics include: self-harm and suicide, dual diagnosis, learning disabilities, deafness, the elderly, prisoners holding foreign nationality, and Black and Minority Ethnic prisoners. It concludes with comprehensive recommendations about how to improve policy and practice.

Price: £12    ISBN: 0 946209 73 1    2005