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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background People who have been incarcerated have high rates of cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension and smoking, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of hospitalizations and mortality in this population.
Benjamin A. Howell +11 more
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Punishment as a scarce resource: a potential policy intervention for managing incarceration rates
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Scholars have proposed that incarceration rates might be reduced by a requirement that judges justify incarceration decisions with respect to their operational costs (e.g., prison capacity).
Eyal Aharoni +3 more
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Set up to fail: The politics, mechanisms, and effects of mass incarceration
Latin American Law Review, 2021 The rise of the citizen security paradigm has complemented, rather than curtailed, authoritarian legacies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Notably, criminal justice and law enforcement policies continue to feed a wave of mass incarceration, evidenced
Adrian Bergmann, Rafael Gude
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2014 Objective: There are few data about the incarceration of opioid‐dependent people involving large representative cohorts. We aimed to determine the prevalence and duration of incarceration in a large cohort of opioid‐dependent people in Australia using ...
Louisa Degenhardt +9 more
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Unintended Consequences: Effects of Paternal Incarceration on Child School Readiness and Later Special Education Placement [PDF]
Sociological Science, 2014 Though sociologists have examined how mass incarceration affects stratification, remarkably little is known about how it shapes educational disparities. Analyzing the Fragile Families Study and its rich paternal incarceration data, I ask whether black and
Anna R Haskins
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Journal of Health Economics and Outcomes Research, 2016 # Background Many persons with severe mental illness qualify for Medicaid coverage. However, under federal law, states must either suspend or terminate eligibility once they are incarcerated.
Chris Kozma +3 more
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Incarceration as a key variable in racial disparities of asthma prevalence
BMC Public Health, 2010 Background Despite the disproportionate incarceration of minorities in the United States, little data exist investigating how being incarcerated contributes to persistent racial/ethnic disparities in chronic conditions. We hypothesized that incarceration
Green Jeremy, Wang Emily A
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SSM: Population Health, 2019 A collateral consequence of mass incarceration in the United States is its negative effects on population health. Using data from 2015, this study examines the relationship between incarceration rates and population health for a national sample of U.S ...
Robert R. Weidner, Jennifer Schultz
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Health & Justice, 2023 Background People who experience incarceration have poorer health than the general population. Yet, we know little about the health and health service utilization of people during the critical period prior to their incarceration, relative to during ...
Tenzin Butsang +4 more
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