SUMMARY FOR ARTICLE

Designing ‘healthy’ prisons for women: Incorporating trauma-informed care and practice TICP into prison planning and design. These factors can in turn create an intense and debilitating work environment for sta with reported burn-out and high levels of absenteeism and early departures from the profession who themselves might benefit from a more TICP-centred environment; for example data from the US has shown a % decrease in prisoner-on-sta violence following the implementation of a trauma-informed regime at Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Framlingham . Reception areas where prisoners are processed on admission into custody can be particularly damaging because the administrative demands of eciency tend tobe incompatible with the concerns of the individual prisoner who when she most needs it is given little opportunity to discuss the reality of the world she is entering or her fears concerning unresolved problems on the outside. For example: Does removal from particular areas of the prison isolate sources of trouble that triggered exacerbated or contributed to symptoms of trauma. Despite the recent introduction of some elements of TICP in existing prisons the governments commitment to short-term cost savings at the expense of long-term rehabilitation results in well-intentioned but woefully unambitious attempts to improve environments that were originally purposefully designed with a punitive and retributive aesthetic.