Table 5 An overview of included study characteristics (*studies are numbered 1–27)
Study/Paper: first author, year, | Country | Sample (size, sex, prison type/study site) | Food Provision/s |
|---|---|---|---|
Earle and Phillips 20121* | UK, England | 50 men in medium security prison | Self-cook |
UK, England | Unstated number of men on day release at a resettlement scheme.Men in category C prison | Café kitchen/dining room of day release programme Prison issued meals, prison shop | |
Smith, 20025 | UK, England | 89 women across three prisons; one closed, one open and one remand prison | Prison-issued meals, self-cook in open prison, prison shop |
Valentine and Longstaff 19986 | UK, England | Unstated number of men | Prison-issued meals, prison shop |
Blore, 20117 | Australia | Sample of prisoners from Prisoner Advisory Committees in State of Queensland. Number of participants not stated | Prison-issued meals, prison shop |
Hannan-Jones, 20168 | Australia | 120 male prisoners, unstated number of food service staff in a maximum-security prison | Prison-issued meals |
Heckenberg and Cody 20069 | Australia | Six men previously incarcerated males (all had been resident in the maximum and medium security wings of the same prison) | Prison-issued meals |
Williams et al., 200810 | Australia | 27 men and nine women. Three prisons, one male maximum security, one male minimum security, and one female prison | Prison-issued meals, prison shop |
Graaf and Kilty 201611 | Canada | 12 previously incarcerated women resident in a transition house | Prison-issued meals, prison shop |
Canada | 17 men across three prisons, two medium-security and one minimum-security | Prison-issued meals | |
Ifeonu et al., 202214 | Canada | 495 men and 92 women in four prisons | Prison-issued meals, prison shop |
Kjaere Minke, 201415 | Denmark | 68 men in a maximum-security prison | Self-cook |
Smoyer, 201917 | Denmark | 9 women across remand centre, closed prison and open prison | Self-cook |
Ugelvik, 201117 | Norway | Unstated number men resident in two remand wings in one prison | Prison-issued meals, prison shop |
Belgium and Netherlands | 52 men transferred from a Belgian prison to a Dutch one, 17 prison staff and unstated number of medical and accounting staff, an imam, and a prison governor | Prison-issued chilled ready meal access to microwave. prison shop | |
USA | 30 previously incarcerated women resident in a transition house | Prison-issued meals prison shop | |
Chatterjee and Chatterjee 201827 | India | 90 women across two prisons, one mixed, one female only | Prison-issued meals, prison shop |
Einat, 201827 | Israel | 20 previously incarcerated men resident in a transition house | Prison-issued meals, prison shop |