Psychiatry matter in jail: Which future for patients and for healthcare?

Practicing psychiatry with the prison population is a daily challenge. It requires a solid professional experience and a keen knowledge of the particularities of this population. The health care provision has diversified over time but also in response to needs that have grown more acute as a result of penal policies and societal changes. There are still many obstacles to reach an offer that meets these needs, but professionals regularly question each other and reinvent the discipline according to the advances allowed by some innovations in care. In addition, there remains confusion among some between the behavioral dimension of some mental disorders and transgressivity, requiring clarity on the care to be provided, between curative psychiatric care, preventive psychiatric care, psychocriminological care. . . (c) 2024 l'Acadedie nationale de medecine. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.