Transfer Of Prisoners Research Articles

Obtaining Evidence Abroad in Criminal Cases. By Michael Abbell. Ardsley NY: Transnational Publishers, 2001. Pp. 1000. Index. $175. - Extradition to and from the United States. By Michael Abbell. Ardsley NY: Transnational Publishers, 2001. Pp. 1050. Index. $175. - International Prisoner Transfer. By Michael Abbell. Ardsley NY: Transnational Publishers, 2001. Pp. 600. Index. $165.

Obtaining Evidence Abroad in Criminal Cases. By Michael Abbell. Ardsley NY: Transnational Publishers, 2001. Pp. 1000. Index. $175. - Extradition to and from the United States. By Michael Abbell. Ardsley NY: Transnational Publishers, 2001. Pp. 1050. Index. $175. - International Prisoner Transfer. By Michael Abbell. Ardsley NY: Transnational Publishers, 2001. Pp. 600. Index. $165. - Volume 96 Issue 3

An outbreak of syphilis in Alabama prisons: correctional health policy and communicable disease control.

After syphilis outbreaks were reported at 3 Alabama State men's prisons in early 1999, we conducted an investigation to evaluate risk factors for syphilis infection and describe patterns of syphilis transmission. We reviewed medical, patient interview, and prison transfer records and documented sexual networks. Presumptive source cases were identified. Odds of exposure to unscreened jail populations and transfer from other prisons were calculated for case patients at 1 prison. Thirty-nine case patients with early syphilis were identified from 3 prisons. Recent jail exposure (odds ratio [OR] = 8.0, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.3, 158.7, P = .14) and prison transfer (OR = 32.0, 95% CI = 1.6, 1668.1, P < .01) were associated with being a source case patient. Probable sources of syphilis introduction into and transmission within prisons included mixing of prisoners with unscreened jail populations, transfer of infected inmates between prisons, and multiple concurrent sexual partnerships. Reducing sexual transmission of disease in correctional settings is a public health priority and will require innovative prevention strategies.

Foreign Convictions, Prisoner Transfer Treaties, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines

Research Article| September 01 2000 Foreign Convictions, Prisoner Transfer Treaties, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Lara S. Vinnard Lara S. Vinnard Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Federal Sentencing Reporter (2000) 13 (2): 79–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/20640318 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lara S. Vinnard; Foreign Convictions, Prisoner Transfer Treaties, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Federal Sentencing Reporter 1 September 2000; 13 (2): 79–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20640318 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFederal Sentencing Reporter Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Increasing the power of psychiatric court diversion: a new model of supra-district diversion centre.

The object was to develop and evaluate a new concentrated model of psychiatric diversion scheme at the magistrates' court, designed to maximize the potential of such interventions. A one-year prospective study was undertaken of a consecutive series of 264 referrals to the new diversion project at an Inner London magistrates' court, with concurrent examination of police station custody records, magistrates' court returns, hospital admission data and remand prison transfer records for an area with a population of 500,000. The results showed that this one scheme originated 12.8% of all the unrestricted hospital orders in England under section 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983, 4.2% of section 35 orders, and 6.4% of section 48 and 48/49 remand prisoner transfers. Of all arrests in the central London area, 0.46% were referred to the scheme, with 0.28% being admitted. The seriousness of the charge did not have a significant effect on whether or not admission was achieved (p = 0.5365). The new model is a powerful intervention in the assessment and diversion of mentally disordered offenders. Similar supra-district diversion centres may have a role to play in other areas, complementing other local diversion exercises, some of which might better be relocated to the police station.

“Annihilation through Labor”: The Killing of State Prisoners in the Third Reich

“Annihilation through Labor”: The Killing of State Prisoners in the Third Reich

Admission trends to a special hospital: court diversion and prison transfers.

This paper reviews the literature regarding the diversion of mentally disordered offenders from the criminal justice system to the mental health services, with a specific focus on the high security psychiatric special hospitals. The traditional sources of admission to these institutions have been predominantly courts and prisons, with the majority of patients being admitted via the former route. This study reports on the admissions to a special hospital over a 20-year period, and shows that over the previous decade there has been a reversal in this trend, with the number of patients transferred from prison being greater than that via any other route. The factors that may have contributed to this reversal are discussed and conclusions are drawn as to the external and internal forensic factors that may influence the court's decision in the referral process.

The Home Office Mental Health Unit

On 1 April the mental health section of the Home Office's C3 Division was renamed “Mental Health Unit”, as part of a wider initiative to streamline the Department and give more meaningful titles to the various different areas of work. The responsibilities of our Unit remain the same, however. First, we deal with the cases of restricted patients under mental health legislation. As well as advising Ministers or taking decisions on their behalf about leave, transfers and discharge, the Unit also authorises the transfer of mentally disordered prisoners to hospital. This prison transfer work is focused in a separate section of the Unit which is able to provide a very rapid response to urgent requests for transfer warrants. The number of transfers has gone up from 337 in 1990 to over 700 in each of the last three years.

Transfer of Prisoners to and from Poland: Legal Ramifications, Reality and Future Perspectives

Transfer of Prisoners to and from Poland: Legal Ramifications, Reality and Future Perspectives

Section 48: an underused provision?

Section 48 of the Mental Health Act, 1983 (MHA) permits the Secretary of State to authorise the removal to hospital of an unsentenced prisoner who is ‘suffering from mental illness or severe mental impairment of a nature or degree which makes it appropriate for him to be detained in a hospital for medical treatment and that he is in urgent need of such treatment’. (Mental Health Act, 1983). Its common usage in the past has been in transfers of unsentenced prisoners from prison to hospital.

The problems of prisoner transfer

The problems of prisoner transfer

Female prison transfers to the Central Mental Hospital, a Special Hospital (1983–1988)

AbstractDuring the course of imprisonment, whether on remand or when serving a sentence, people sometimes need to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital. In the Republic of Ireland the only psychiatric hospital a person can be transferred to is the Central Mental Hospital (C.M.H.).We describe 99 female prison transfers to the C.M.H. between 1983 and 1988. The mean age of the 70 sentenced prisoners was 26.43 years and that of the 29 remand prisoners was 33 years. The primary diagnoses were Schizophrenia (11), Mania (7), Depression and Stress (23), Personality Disorder (36), Mental Handicap (2) and Drug Addiction (16). The longest average stay at the hospital was for personality disorders (5 weeks). The longest sentences were for drugs offences. There were no cases of homicide or sex offences. We recommend that many of these cases could be handled in their catchment area hospital rather than in a high security Special Hospital.

Olsen, by Sheldon v. Government of Mexico Sanchez, by Cernie v. Republic of Mexico

96State immunity — Jurisdictional immunity — Torts — Exception to immunity for non-commercial torts — United States Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 1976 — Whether events have to occur wholly within the territory of the United States — Exception for torts committed by foreign State in the exercise of discretionary functions — Identification of tortious act — Transfer of prisoners pursuant to treaty — Aircraft carrying prisoners crashing in United States territory — The law of the United States

Male prison transfers to the Central Mental Hospital, a special hospital (1983–1988)

AbstractDuring the course of imprisonment, whether on remand or when serving a sentence, people sometimes need to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital. In Ireland the only psychiatric hospital a person can be transferred to is the Central Mental Hospital (CMH).We describe 627 prison transfers to the CMH between 1983 and 1988. The number each year varied from 99 in 1983 to 127 in 1988. The percentage on remand varied from 49% in 1984 to 31% in 1987 and 1986. The average age of sentenced prisoners was 28 years and 35 years in the case of those on remand. The diagnostic categories were as follows: Schizophrenia (31%), Reactive Depression (23%), Personality Disorder (25%), Mania (5%), Drug and Alcohol (8%) and Mental Handicap (4%). The longest average stay in the hospital was seven weeks for Mania and the shortest was three weeks for Reactive Depression. The largest proportion on remand was for Mania (79%) followed by Schizophrenia (58%). We make recommendations about legislation and the role of the catchment area psychiatric hospital.

Predicting outcome of insanity acquittees released to the community

AbstractThis research developed a model for forensic release decisions that incorporated actuarial and psychiatric predictors. The model was based on research that compared 127 insanity acquittees in the State of Maryland with a matched control group of 127 convicted felons and a comparison group of 135 mentally disordered prison transfers. The three cohorts were followed for an average of 10 years after release from hospital or prison. Findings on two outcome indicators are reported in this article: rearrests within 5 years after release and overall functioning in the community during 2½ years after release. Discriminant analysis was performed on the outcome variable of rearrest; it was found to accurately predict the outcome of 75% of the subjects with the following six variables: adjustment in hospital, clinical assessment of hospital staff, Global Assessment Scale score at release, functioning prior to instant offense, heroin addiction, and birth order. A second discriminant analysis identified seven variables that accurately predicted the overall functioning of 80.4% of the insanity acquittees.

Fourteenth Amendment: Due Process and Interstate Prison Transfers

Fourteenth Amendment: Due Process and Interstate Prison Transfers

"Vitek" and beyond: The Empirical Context of Prison-to-Hospital Transfers

In the 1980 case of Vitek v. Jones, the United States Supreme Court held that the transfer of a prison inmate to a mental hospital required an administrative hearing to determine whether the transfer was appropriate. This decision broke new ground in the area of corrections law since it concluded that least one change in a prisoner's status, by its very nature, could not be accomplished without some formal factfinding procedure.2 A recent and comprehensive analysis of Vitek precludes the necessity of reviewing the legal precedents or reasoning of the case here.3 The Supreme Court decided Vitek, however, without the benefit of any descriptive and analytic account of the empirical context in which decisions are made to transfer prisoners to mental hospitals. Without such information it is not possible to assess the extent to which Vitek addresses the central issues in the transfer process. This article, after summarizing the very limited existing research on the prison-to-mental hospital transfer process, presents the results of a study undertaken to fill that informational gap. The study gathered statistical data on the types of transfers that occur in six of the United States, the nature of the facilities to which prisoners are transferred, and the perceptions of the staff at the prisons and mental hospitals involved in the transfer of prisoners. One conclusion from this study is that Vitek must be read broadly as applying to the transfer of prisoners to mental health facilities operated by departments of corrections (DOCs), and not just to the transfer of prisoners to hospitals operated by departments of mental health (DMHs). This is essential

Convention on the Transfer of Prisoners Among the Communist Countries

The primary task of this Section of the IJLL is to alert the readers either to comparative legislative developments in a particular subject area or to highlight a single major piece of legislation which is likely to have an impact or influence on other than a national forum. It will also attempt to survey international acts and documents affecting the relations within the community of nations as well as the legislative programs and policy of the states involved.Materials intended for publication in this Section should be sent to the Section Editor, Dr. Ivan Sipkov, European Law Division, Law Library, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 (U.S.A.). They will be published, upon acceptance, under the contributor's name.

Transfer of Prisoners to Mental Institutions

Transfer of Prisoners to Mental Institutions

Constitutional Problems in the Execution of Foreign Penal Sentences: The Mexican-American Prisoner Transfer Treaty

Constitutional Problems in the Execution of Foreign Penal Sentences: The Mexican-American Prisoner Transfer Treaty

Procedural Due Process in the Involuntary Institutional Transfer of Prisoners

Procedural Due Process in the Involuntary Institutional Transfer of Prisoners