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he Canadian incarceration rate of 116 per 100,000 people reveals a relatively high rate of incarceration compared to Western European countries. 1 Although the absolute number of Canadians with incarceration experience is relatively small, they experience many health inequities and are among the most underserved populations in Canada. 2-5 Furthermore, there is increasing evidence that the determinants of criminality and recidivism are similar to the determinants of health. For example, criminal behaviour patterns are associated with substance dependence which is often an expression of trauma and unmet health and social needs, including inaccessible health care services. 6 Imprisonment itself also negatively impacts health for several reasons, including separation from family, unhygienic facilities, and poor self-care as a reaction to imprisonment. 7 Selfreported health problems are also found to increase with inmates' duration of incarceration. 8 Upon release from prison, individuals face many challenges to reintegration, including social exclusion, which is often underpinned by the stigma of incarceration. 5,9,10 Although health-seeking behaviours of prisoners can improve when appropriate prison health services are provided, barriers persist to accessing health services in the community. 11 As health care provision often focuses finite resources on the most pressing health needs, individuals with incarceration experience in particular have little access to preventive health programs. Indeed, the authors of the current article were unable to locate any Canadian-based preventive health promotion programs targeted to individuals with incarceration experience living in the community. The Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education (CCPHE) at the University of British Columbia is committed to using participatory processes of engagement in order to

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Most Australian libraries with important collections of rare books, or special collections, have many of their treasures derived from 'legacy' collections, the accumulation of decades of collection building. This paper describes the collection development approach of a relatively young institution with a special interest in the history of house and garden design and interior furnishing. In doing so it outlines some of the ways in which the lens of special interest illuminates areas for collecting that have traditionally fallen outside the scope of larger general institutions.

The inaugural collaborative Canadian Prison-Academic-Community Health and Education was organized by the Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education and supported by the University of British Columbia (UBC), Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (NVIT) and Simon Fraser University (SFU) on 4th and 5th December 2008. The conference objective was to encourage and facilitate collaborative opportunities for enhancing health, education, research, service and advocacy, for the social well-being and (re)integration of individuals in custody, their families and communities. Four conference goals were articulated: (1) To share promising practices, current evidence and scholarship in health and education related to prison populations. (2) To bring together prison, academic and community members to create collaborative opportunities for partnerships and reciprocal learning. (3) To discuss and develop policy initiatives to promote positive change within prison health and education. (4) To explore the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of prisoner health and education.