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A Prison and a Nursing Home: Any Similarities?

Oregon Health Sciences University, 254 Gaines Hall, 840 SW Gaines Rd., Portland, Oregon 97201, U.S.A.

Although diversity exists between a prison and a nursing home, there are similarities. In both institutions, the staff members who have the most contact with the population (guards and nurse's aides) had the least amount of professional training in mental health. Significantly, in both institutions, prisoners and residents with whom I worked chose either to be a prisoner or to have a physical disability over mental illness. Two other similarities occurred: food (negative evaluation) and the importance of visitors.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 41, No. 3, 298-301 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X97413008


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