Exercise and the Low-Security Inmate: Changes in Depression, Stress, and Anxiety

The Prison Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 328-343

  Buckaloo, Bobby J ^a   Krug, Kevin S ^b   Nelson, Koury B ^b  

^a SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

depression; exercise; inmates; low security

Indexed keywords

EID: 69649099359     PISSN: 00328855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032885509339508     Document Type: Article

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