Perception of the quality of life in prison. The importance of a good organization and decent treatment
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2018.76.2.16.159Keywords:
Prison behavior, Prison, Quality of life, Self-harmAbstract
Existing studies about inmate’s perception of prison conditions in Spain tend to refer to ‘the’ prison, as if all prisons were uniform institutions with similar life conditions. However, international research suggests that the experience of imprisonment is different depending on the prison in which the sentence is served. To analyze this question, we have administered an adaptation to the Spanish context of the survey Measuring Quality of Prison Life in four prisons of Barcelona. Our findings suggest that quality of prison life is significantly different among prisons, that these differences have consequences for inmates’ wellbeing, and that most of those differences are due to organization and personal relations and not mainly to inmates’ individual characteristics.
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