A study of psychosocial health education in the fields of correctional, educational, medical and judicial services to prisoners and its comparison with the desired situation

The most important goal of the criminal justice system is to respond to the phenomenon of the crime is to rehabilitate criminals to return to society happily. Therefore it is very important to study current status of psychosocial health education in the fields of education of correctional, educational, medical and judicial services to prisoners and its comparison with the desired situation in order to promote the health of prisoners.The present study according to the purpose is applied, the way it is done is causal-comparative, and quantitative data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical population includes all staff of Kermanshah Central Prison, which numbered 385 people, using simple random sampling, 100 of them were selected as the sample.The results showed that the current status of psychosocial health education to prisoners in the subscales of judicial is equal to 38%, medicine 30.9%, educational 15.5% and correction 15.5%, and only 60% of the participants were satisfied with the current state of psychosocial health education to prisoners. there was a significant difference in correctional and educational subscales, but no significant difference in medical and judicial subscales.There was a difference between the current situation and the desired situation of mental and social health education of prisoners. Therefore, to reduce the distance between the current state of mental health education and the desired situation of prisoners, it is necessary changing and strengthening the content and implementation of health-oriented education programs based on the psycho-social needs of prisoners.