Introduction / Alice Mills and Kathleen Kendall -- I. Penal power and the psy disciplines : contextualising mental health and imprisonment -- 'We are recreating Bedlam' : a history of mental illness and prison systems in England and Ireland / Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland -- The architecture of psychiatry and the architecture of incarceration / Simon Cross and Yvonne Jewkes -- Psychological jurisprudence and the relational problems of de-vitalisation and finalisation : revisiting the society of captives thesis / Bruce A. Arrigo and Brian G. Sellers -- II. Care versus custody -- Care versus custody : challenges in the provision of prison mental health care / Alice Mills and Kathleen Kendall -- How do new psychoactive substances affect the mental health of prisoners? / Hattie Moyes -- 'There was no understanding, there was no care, there was no looking after me' : the impact of the prison environment on the mental health of female prisoners / Anastasia Jablonska and Rosie Meek -- III. Dividing practices : structural violence, mental health and imprisonment -- Institutions of default and management : aboriginal women with mental and cognitive disability in prison / Ruth McCausland, Elizabeth McEntyre and Eileen Baldry -- Culture, mental illness, and prison : a New Zealand perspective / James Cavney and Susan Hatters Friedman -- 'Malignant reality' : mental ill-helth and self-inflicted deaths in prisons in England and Wales / Joe Sim -- Institutional captives : US women trapped in the medical-correctional-welfare circuit / Maureen Norton-Hawk and Susan Sered -- Queer and trans incarceration distress : considerations from a mad queer abolitionist perspective / Andrea Daley and Kim Radford -- IV. Alternative penal practices and communities -- A sense of belonging : the Walls to Bridges educational program as a healing space / Shoshana Pollack and Denise Edwards -- Coping with incarceration : the emerging case for the utility of peer-support programmes in prison / Chistian Perrin -- V. Mental health in prisons : key messages and strategies from critical perspectives -- Conclusion / Kathleen Kendall and Alice Mills.