Towards a health-informed approach to penal reform? Evidence from ten countries Acknowledgments My sincere thanks are due to the following for their help and support in connection with this report. For their valuable contributions as speakers at our conference, Mapping inequalities in prisoner healthcare worldwide in November 2018, I would like to thank Zoe Carre, Carl Cattermole, Prof Andrew Coyle CMG, Dr Anja Dirkzwager, Dr Luca Falqui, Katrina Forsyth, Dr Natasha Ginnivan, Juliet Lyon CBE, Emily Nagisa Keehn, Dr Luiz Guilherme Mendes de Paiva, Vicki Prais, Richard Shuker, Katie Stone, Sunita Stürup-Toft, Jenny Talbot OBE, Roy Walmsley and Prof Huw Williams. For assistance with the prisoner accounts and other narrative material featured in the report, I am extremely grateful to Clean Start Kenya, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Dr Sacha Darke, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, O Instituto Responsa and Sonke Gender Justice. For their comments on earlier drafts of this report, my thanks are due to Prof Andrew Coyle CMG, Prof Mike Hough and Dr Jessica Jacobson. I also thank Helen Fair for producing the Appendix and suggestions for further reading, and Roy Walmsley, Director of ICPR’s World Prison Brief, for his assistance with prison population and overcrowding data. A grant from the Wellcome Trust/Birkbeck Institutional Strategic Support Fund enabled us to hold the November 2018 conference on prisoner health inequalities – effectively, the springboard for the research presented in this report. Finally, on behalf of ICPR and Birkbeck, I would like to thank the Open Society Foundations for providing financial support for our World Prison Research Programme. Catherine Heard Director, World Prison Research Programme Institute for Criminal Policy Research June 2019 ii