User:Madison Roy

I am a junior at Rice University studying Cognitive Sciences with minors in Global Health Technologies and Engineering Design. I am particularly interested in human factors and human-computer interaction in non-traditional circumstances.

Mental Health in Louisiana State Penitentiary
I have a particular interest in prison reform and inmate care. There is a particularly notorious prison in Louisiana known as Angola (or Louisiana State Penitentiary). Renowned for its horrendous conditions and treatment of inmates, I am interested in adding to the Louisiana State Penitentiary Wikipedia page by creating a new stub under Inmate Life called Mental Health. Here, I would like to talk about the mental health programs in place at Angola and their results (or lack thereof). I would also likely mention data regarding mental health in prisons broadly. Finally, I would like to discuss mental health outcomes for people formerly imprisoned at Angola.

Please read more about my topic on my sandbox and view my bibliography!

References:

 * 1) Antoine-Morse, Kristen. "Prison to school to redemption." COABE Journal (2019): 5-13.
 * 2) Baker, Mark W. You Can Change: Stories from Angola Prison and the Psychology of Personal Transformation. Fortress Press, 2020.
 * 3) Cartwright, Keith. "Confederacies of Undead Imagination." Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture (2015): 10.
 * 4) Evans, Carol, Ronda Herzog, and Tanya Tillman. "The Louisiana state penitentiary: Angola prison hospice." Journal of Palliative Medicine 5, no. 4 (2002): 553-558.
 * 5) Hallett, Michael, Joshua Hays, Byron Johnson, Sung Jang, and Grant Duwe. The Angola prison seminary: Effects of faith-based ministry on identity transformation, desistance, and rehabilitation. Routledge, 2016.
 * 6) Hayes, Lindsay M. "Prison suicide: An overview and guide to prevention (Part 3)." Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 16, no. 2 (1995): 63.
 * 7) Hayes, Lindsay M. "Prison suicide: An overview and a guide to prevention." The prison journal 75, no. 4 (1995): 431-456.
 * 8) Jang, Sung Joon, Byron R. Johnson, Joshua Hays, Michael Hallett, and Grant Duwe. "Existential and virtuous effects of religiosity on mental health and aggressiveness among offenders." Religions 9, no. 6 (2018): 182.
 * 9) Miller, Kristi B., Vance L. Drum, and D. Min. "Inmate peer ministry: The chaplain’s role." Corrections Today (2019): 11.
 * 10) Schetky, Diane H. "My Life in Prison." The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 44, no. 4 (2016): 479-482.