Fiachra Byrne on suicide and self-harm amongst juvenile prisoners
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Throw Away the Key
Exhibition exploring the impact of prisons on health at University of Warwick’s Modern Records Centre
Crisis and Controversy: Prison Mental Healthcare in the Late 20th Century
Nicholas Duvall on the controversies surrounding prisoner mental healthcare in the late 20th century
Policy Workshop: The Prison and Mental Health. From Confinement to Diversion
Conveners: Hilary Marland (University of Warwick) and Catherine Cox (University College Dublin)
12 February 2016. Warwick Business School, London Campus, Eastern Lecture Theatre, The Shard, London
Prisoners and Mental Illness in Prisons, 1850–2000
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland
Mental breakdown was often attributed to the intrinsic mental weakness of the prison population …
Mental Illness and Juvenile Prisoners, 1850–2000
Fiachra Byrne
Focusing on the ‘disturbed’ child who exhibited a pathological pattern of behaviour in detention settings …
Management of Health and Disease, 1850–1950
Margaret Charleroy
The physician was responsible for determining the maximum physical stress each inmate could safely endure …
Prison Doctors in the Medical Profession in England, 1970–1990
Nicholas Duvall
The relationship between prison doctors and their NHS colleagues was crucial to delivering prison healthcare …
Political Prisoners, Medicine and Health, 1850–2000
William Murphy
The intersection of health and medical care with ‘modern’ political imprisonment in England and Ireland …
Exploring the history of prisoner health 