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9 Eur. J. Criminology 3 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/eujcrim9 and id is 1 raw text is: European Article (:rnology European journal of Criminology 9(1) 3-22 Suffering at the hands of The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub. the state: Conditions of co.ul</journalsPerissions.nav DOl: 10. 1177/14773708I1421643 im prisonm ent and prisoner euc.sagepub.corn health in contemporary Greece OSAGE Leonidas K. Cheliotis Queen Mary, University of London, UK Abstract With imprisonment rates rising in a large number of jurisdictions worldwide, ever more research attention has been paid to conditions of imprisonment and prisoner health. With a view to contributing to the emerging body of literature, this article offers a systematic summary of key findings from Greece. Prison establishments in this country are vastly overcrowded and material conditions of detainment are deplorable. Healthcare provision in prison is minimal and the prevalence of serious transmittable diseases and mental disorders amongst prisoner populations is high, as are the rates of deliberate self-harm, suicide and death more generally. Prisoner use of prescribed and illicit drugs is alarmingly common, especially as regards injection drugs, and drug overdose appears to account for the majority of deaths in custody. Keywords drug use, Greece, prison conditions, prisoner health, prisoner death and suicide Introduction Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic rise in the use of imprisonment in a large number ofjurisdictions worldwide (Van Dijk, 2008: 259-60). As well as trying to gauge the precise scale and explain the underlying causes of this trend, scholarship has duly paid increasing attention to the experience of imprisonment as such, including the harms it generates for prisoners. Conditions of imprisonment and prisoner health typically occupy centre stage in this regard. The jurisdictional focus of international reviews that Corresponding author: Dr Leonidas K. Cheliotis, Lecturer in Criminology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal justice, Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London El 4NT, UK. Email: 1.cheliotis@qmul.ac.uk

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