Abstract
The article will discuss the particular needs of women prisoners, many of which are replicated in prisons throughout Europe, and are also often undetected and underestimated. The focus will be on the situation for women in Italian prisons, considering the specific health and social care needs they present, how some needs differ to those of male prisoners, and to what extent the organisation of prison health attempts to meet these needs. The key issue identified is that the organisation of prison health deals predominantly with emergency cases and is not able to provide a preventative healthcare service to women in prison. Also, women prisoners suffer a greater impact on their physical and mental well‐being as a result of poor implementation of healthcare services, as well as from the regime of prison itself.
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