I did a quick search in  the CINHAL data base and found these articles.  What an interesting topic! I hope these articles help.  Good luck!

Hi there.  At Mariposa Women and Family Center in Orange, CA we work with women when they are court ordered to attend drug and alcohol recovery groups.  These women participate in groups and individual sessions focused on life skills such as Job Skills, Time Management, Stress Management and Leisure, Communication, going back to school, etc. 

We also go otu itno the community to lead groups in residential recovery homes where many of the women have been in prison recently. 

We also help them with issues such as how to get a job with a criminal background.  There's so much to address with them and I'd love to help out with your project if I can.

Sue

P.S.  I can send you an article I wrote about our work here, but it's too large for this attachment.

I heard this story on the Today Show this morning and thought it might help in your research.  Here is a link to the description of the prison: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/shockny.pdf.  It's a shock incarceration facility in Lakeview, NY. 

And I saw you needed to know how to email someone...If you two are colleagues you can email via your profile or you can post a message on someone's wall (go to search profiles and type in their profile name).  I hope this helps you out!

I feel so fortunate to have found this blog. I have been playing with the idea of implementing an OT program in my local prison. I am a firm believer of rehab to prevent these offenders from returning. I would love to hear more about OT's in prisons, and who I should contact in the judicial system to implement a program. Thank you

Laura

CJ:

  I am an academic FW coordinator at a small OT program in south central PA. I just visited Ann Klein Forensic Psych Hosp in Trenton NJ where we have placed a student with their OT department. They serve 200 prisoners (male and female) in a maximum security forensic psych setting that is shared with Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. I'm sure the staff there would be glad to share info with you if you contacted them. Email me at work at achenbachc@etown.edu if you want their contact info. Great program and one of the main reasons patients are referred there is due to the rehab department including OT!

--Chris Achenbach, MEd, OTR/L

Elizabethtown College

Hi CJ

Very interested to read your postings on OTs in a forensic setting - this is the area in which i want to work.  I am currently about to start my 3rd year of a 4 year P/T OT degree.  I am trying to arrange to do my elective placement at either Broadmoor or Ashworth to gain a real insight.  I have also recently in my spare time joined the police as a custody inspector to gain another dimension to my experience.

I would be very interested to read your dissertation and to get some further details regarding the Forensic OT conf - hadnt heard about this conference so any info you could send onto me would be great.  Would be fab to come and see you present your findings!

Hope you get this message as I see its almost 2 months since the last post - will have a stab at e-mailing you direct now, but have only just joined the site so I could contact you so who knows what I'll end up doing on here!!

Kind regards,

Incy

Good to hear of your interest and research in the area of OTs in prison.  It can be a challenging area but there is lots of scope for development.  I work within a correctional centre providing OT services to inmates (men's prison).  So I walk amongst inmates all the time and see them in clinics for a range of needs.  I have also had the opportunity to provide consultative advice in regards to women's prison, in particular to mothers and babies unit.

I encourage you to continue to pursue your goal in working in prison setting and increase health care for people in prisons.