Exposure to stresses inherent to life in prison may exacerbate inmates health problems. Furthermore, 1 researcher found that inmates were concerned about the quality of prison medical care and lack of specific programming for elderly inmates. Looking to the future, Kratcoski and babb reported that older inmates were more fearful about being released from prison than were their younger counterparts;however, they did not report whether fears were health related. Although in-prison barriers to inmate health care (i.e, requrired medical request forms to be completed, minimally trained medical technical assistants serving as gatekeepers to care,copayment fees, prolonred waiting periods, lost work, lack of structured preventive care, and health education ) have been delineated in a Web-based source, as wellvas in our broader quantitative study (e.g;unaware that programs are available ,do not know what to do to promote health , feel there is not much one can do to promote health, and lack of motivation.) no data-based information was found about barriers to health behaviors that inmates anticipate facting or fear in regard to health upon their eventual release from prison.