Systems expertise
Estates
Over the years we have accrued a lot of know-how about delivering holistic offender healthcare in a wide variety of secure environments:
The function and state of police stations vary widely around the world
high-income country (HIC) and low-and-middle-income (LMIC) countries
police stations around the world
high secure estate (HSE) through to open prisons
remand jails and sentences prisons
open prisons
young offender institutions (YOIs)
low, medium & high secure forensic psychiatric units
probation hostels
Ill-treatment
Video conferences and official reports can get you so far, but you need to get inside a place of detention in order to answer certain questions
We see all manner of conditions - extremely rarely luxurious, sometimes acceptable, usually unacceptable, and sadly all too often so ghastly you can’t help but shed a silent tear. And we see all manner of treatment - ranging from (occasionally) faultless through to frankly torturous.
We are not a statutory inspection body, and so it is up to us how to deal with the ill-treatment we see. Within shame/honour cultures, we rarely approach it head on. And we always keep ill-treated detainees’ wishes at the heart of our decision making.
Speak up and judge fairly...
Proverbs 31:9
