Title: Jail and Prison Goes to the UK

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Section/SPIG: Medical Care

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Three members of the Jail and Prison Health Committee will be spending a week during mid-May in the United Kingdom to present the new APHA Standards for Health Services in Correctional Institutions (2003) to our European colleagues. Corey Weinstein, Nancy Stoller and Pat Kelly will be meeting with the U.K.’s Director of Prison Health and the head of the World Health Organization's Health in Prison Project (HIPP) and touring British penal facilities. HIPP is formed by more than 30 countries, but not the United States. We will be meeting with HIPP as an NGO from the United States, and hope to build working relationships with HIPP members. With the support of Carol Allen of the International Human Rights Committee, Dr. Georges Benjamin, our Executive Director, has approved our delegation’s request to represent APHA at this meeting. We will bring back a full report to the Annual Meeting this fall at the Section's Business Meetings. We look forward to seeing the more rehabilitation focused prisons in the U.K. and talking with penal managers and staff who share our public health values and practices.