... ( EE ) contribute to perceived stress among prison officers (POs), beyond traditional contextual factors. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample of 58 Italian POs (mean age = 44.3 years; 72.4% male, 27.6% female) who completed standardized self-report...

... © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Substance abuse Prison Rehabilitation Prison officers Basic needs Prison environment In 2022, the USA judicial system incarcerated an estimated 1,827,600 individuals (Buehler...

... substitution therapy Prison officers Drug dependence Prison staff Qualitative research Harm reduction Corresponding author Allison Mobley ammobley@uw.edu 01 11 2024 29 03 2025 12 05 2025 24 06 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited...

...Thomas D. Akoensi Purpose The literature on prison officers highlights the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on prison staff. However, there is limited knowledge about how the pandemic affected prison officers’ mental health in the global south. To fill this void, this study aims...

... be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Public health Qualitative research Health promotion Prison Prison staff Prison officers Prisons are associated with poor health outcomes for people who are incarcerated and for prison staff (Cloud et al., 2023a...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Health promotion Prison staff Prison Systematic review Prison officers Correctional officer One further contributory factor has been the resourcing of prisons – in England and Wales, for example, the number of frontline prison staff was cut...

...Sarah Hean; Atle Ødegård; Elisabeth Willumsen Purpose Interprofessional collaboration is necessary when supporting mentally ill offenders but little is understood of these interactions. The purpose of this paper is to explore prison officers’ perceptions of current and desirable levels...

...Zahrotur R. Hinduan; Harry Suherman; W.J. Lucas Pinxten; Bachti Alisjahbana; Harm J. Hospers Purpose Prison officers have a vital role in running a secure and healthy living environment for the inmates. The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between HIV/AIDS‐related knowledge...

...Rachael Dixey; James Woodall Purpose This paper aims to discuss some of the obstacles to implementing policy and strategy related to health promoting prisons. It focuses on the role of prison officers and raises issues concerning their conditions of service, training and organisational culture...