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Managing the Mental Health of Prisoners Mental Health Law Profiles Volume 11 Number 3 August 2014 ISSN 1749-3676 Guest editorial Mental health law 53 Prisoner mental health in the profiles USA 64 Introduction Nigel Bark George Ikkos 65 Canada’s mental health Thematic papers: legislation Managing the mental Richard L. O’Reilly and John E. Gray 75 News and notes 67 A new Mental Health Act for health of prisoners Malta 75 Correspondence Anthony Zahra, Miriam Camilleri 55 Introduction 77 Forthcoming David Skuse and John Cachia international events 56 The management of mental health problems among Research paper prisoners in England and Wales Jane Senior, Louis Appleby and 69 A survey of the mental Jenny Shaw healthcare systems in five Francophone countries in West 59 Prison is not the right place for Africa: Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte people with mental disorders: d’Ivoire, Niger and Togo the Brazilian case Djibo Douma Maiga and Maíra Mendes dos Santos, Silvia Julian Eaton Regina Viodres Inoue, Maria Ines Quintana, Sergio Luiz Blay, Jair de Jesus Mari and Sergio Baxter Andreoli Special paper 61 A novel prison mental health in-reach service in Somaliland: a 73 Is there a resumption of political model for low-income countries? psychiatry in the former Soviet Jibril I. M. Handuleh and Ronan J. Union? 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