Digest
| Date | 01 September 1982 |
| Published date | 01 September 1982 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058202900308 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
107
DIGEST
Prisons
The
catalogue
of
inadequacy
continues
-
the
prison
population
averaged
43,000
in
1981
some
1,000
up
on
the
previous
year
and
some
6,000
above
the
accepted
capacity
of
the
system.
Nearly
17,000
inmates
shared
cells,
some
5,610
sleeping
three
in
a
cell
and
11,294
two
in
a
cell.
Too
many
inmates
are
underemployed
and
the
daily
routine
dulls
initiative
and
promotes
bitterness.
Resources
are
inadequate
and
inefficiency
compounds
the
problems.
The
average
weekly
wage
of
keeping
a
person
in
prison
in
1980-81
was
£177
(£369
per
week
in
a
dispersal
prison,
£127
a
week
in
an
open
prison).
Maintenance
and
rebuilding
pro-
grammes
are
inadequate
and
there
is
grow-
ing
concern
about
racial
tension
and
the
lack
of
provision
for
ethnic
groups.
The
decline
of
the
prison
industries
is
symptom-
atic
of
the
serious
imbalance
between
the
demands
on
the
prison
system
and
the
resources
made
available
for
the
Prison
Service.
Source:
NACRO
News
Digest
No
2,
June
1982.
cf
Report
of
the
Work
of
the
Prison
Dept
(April
1982),
Cmnd
8543/
/
HMSO,
£7.50
and
Report
of
Her
Majesty’s
Chief
Inspector
of
Prisons
for
England
and
Wales
1981
(March
1982),
Cmnd
8532,
£4.35.
Ten
Years
On
It
was
ten
years
ago
that
CHAR
was
estab-
lished.
The
latest
annual
report
details
its
achievements
over
the
past
decade
in
its
campaigns
for
the
single
homeless
in
need.
The
report
also
includes
a
wider
review
of
the
housing,
hostel,
health
and
social
security
scene
encompassing
changing
legis-
lation,
statutory
provision
and
social
trends.
A
useful
source
review
for
those
con-
cerned
with
the
plight
of
the
poor
single
homeless.
Source:
’10
Years
Campaigning
for
Single
Homeless
People’.
CHAR
Report
1981-82,
from
27
John
Adam
Street,
Lon-
don,
WC2;
tel:
01-839
6185.
Drug
Abuse
’Drug
Abuse
Briefing:
A
guide
to
the
effects
of
drugs
and
to
the
social
and
legal
facts
about
their
non-medical
use
in
Britain’,
provides
the
general
reader
and
nonspecialist
professional
with
a
compre-
hensive
and
informative
guide
to
under-
standing
drug
abuse.
There
are
sections
on
alcohol,
tobacco,
caffeine, solvents,
seda-
tives,
tranquillisers,
cannabis,
cocaine,
LSD
and
opiates
as
well
as
on
the
history
of
drug
abuse,
its
social
and
legal
setting.
Clear
in
style
and
layout.
Also
available
from
the
ISDD
is
a
reprint
from
an
article
which
originally
appeared
in
Woman’s
Realm;
’Drug
Abuse:
What
every
caring
parent
should
know’.
It
deals
largely
with
solvents
but
also
considers
other
types
of
drugs.
Both
publications
are
useful
as
a
source
of
information
for
parents
worried ;
about
drugs.
Available
from
the
ISDD,
I’
Kingsbury
House,
3
Blackburn
Road,
London,
NW6,
at
£1.00
and
£0.20
respec-
tively,
plus
postage.
)
Single
Homeless
.
An
excellent
booklet
by
Leicester
CHAR
maps
out
the health
facts
and
dispels
the
myths
about
the
single
homeless
in
the
city.
The
research,
based
on
in-depth
interviews
of
132
homeless
people,
as
well
as
GPs,
hospital
emergency
departments
and
those
involved
in
health
care
schemes
for
the
homeless,
discovered
a
high
incidence
of
illness
in
the
single
homeless
population
but
that
less
than 50
per
cent
were
registered
with
GPs.
The
stereotype
of
the
feckless
itinerant
was
not
upheld.
The
report
makes
a
number
of
useful
recommendations
including
a
proposed
registration
drive
to
increase
contact
with
GP
services,
a
drop
in
service
for
those
unable
to
register
and
a
training
programme
for
health
service
workers.
Source:
’Health
Care
for
The
Single
Homeless’,
April
1982,
from
CHAR,
27
John
Adam
Street,
London,
WC2,
£2.00.
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