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Inside Story - Prison Health PDF E-mail
(Source: British Medical Journal, 22 January 2007)
bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/326/7379/56.pdf

I can speak from first hand experience about the lack of health care within the prison service, albeit from the perspective of the much over populated female estate.

The job of being a prison doctor is hard. Many inmates are drug users or self harmers. They pull fast ones to get legal prescriptions to alleviate the gnawing need for heroin or crack cocaine. They try to get sick notes so they do not have to work. However, not all prisoners are addicts or skivers, yet we are treated as if we are.
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