The mental health of foreign national prisoners.

Foreign national prisoners include people who are subject to criminal proceedings and have been deprived of their liberty in a state in which they are neither a national nor a resident. In the United Kingdom, they constitute approximately 10,000 individuals and represent around 12% of the total prison population. Significant health disparity exists within the general prison population compared to society at large and foreign national prisoners suffer even higher rates of both physical and mental health disorders. The impact of detention; extradition, deportation and administrative removal legislation; and mental health service provision for foreign national prisoners is discussed. The right to health encompasses access to appropriate healthcare independent of legal status and like all human rights, extends to foreign national prisoners. Change is required and the provision of equivalent care for foreign national prisoners requires global attention.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

• Publication date

  2019-02-01

• Fields of study

  Law, Medicine, Political Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.jflm.2019.01.001PMID 30616174
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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