This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services. It also discusses how non-medical practices, such as peer support and prison education programs, offer the possibility of transformative practice and support. By drawing on international contributions, it furthermore demonstrates how mental health in prisons is affected by wider socio-economic and cultural factors, and how in recent years neo-liberalism has abandoned, criminalised and contained large numbers of the world's most marginalised and vulnerable populations. Overall, this collection challenges the dominant narrative of individualism by focusing instead on the relationship between structural inequalities, suffering, survival and punishment. 

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Chapter 1. Introduction

PART 1. Penal Power and the Psy Disciplines : Contextualising Mental Health and Imprisonment
Chapter 2. 'We Are Recreating Bedlam': A History of Mental Illness and Prison Systems in England and Ireland; Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland
Chapter 3. The Architecture of Psychiatry and the Architecture of Incarceration; Simon Cross and Yvonne Jewkes
Chapter 4. Psychological Jurisprudence and the Relational Problems of De-vitalization and Finalization: Revisiting the Society of Captives Thesis; Bruce A. Arrigo and Brian G. Sellers
PART 2. Care versus Custody
Chapter 5. Care versus Custody: Challenges in the Provision of Prison Mental Healthcare; Alice Mills and Kathleen Kendall
 Chapter 6. How do New Psychoactive Substances Affect the Mental Health of Prisoners?; Hattie Moyes
Chapter 7. 'There was no understanding, there was no care, there was no looking after me': The impact of the prison environment on the mental health of female prisoners; Anastasia Jablonska and Rosie Meek
PART 3. Dividing Practices: Structural Violence, Mental health and Imprisonment
Chapter 8. Institutions of Default and Management: Aboriginal Women with Mental and Cognitive Disability in Prison; Ruth McCausland, Elizabeth McEntyre and Eileen Baldry
Chapter 9. Culture, Mental Illness, and Prison: A New Zealand Perspective; James Cavney and Susan Hatters Friedman
Chapter10. 'Malignant Reality': Mental Ill-Health and Self-Inflicted Deaths in England and Wales; Joe Sim
Chapter 11. Institutional Captives: US Women Trapped in the Medical / Correctional / Welfare Circuit; Maureen Norton-Hawk and Susan Sered
Chapter 12. Queer and Trans Incarceration Distress: Considerations from a Mad Queer Abolitionist Perspective; Andrea Daley and Kim Radford
PART 3. Alternative Penal Practices and Communities
Chapter 13. A Sense of Belonging: The Walls to Bridges Educational Program as a Healing Space; Shoshana Pollack and Denise Edwards
Chapter 14. Coping with incarceration: The emerging case for the utility of peer-support programs in prison; Christian Perrin
Chapter 15. Conclusion; Kathleen Kendall and Alice Mills.