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Opioid toxicity deaths in Indigenous people who experienced incarceration in Ontario, Canada 2015–2020: a whole population retrospective cohort studyResearch in context

The Lancet Regional Health. Americas
Summary: Background: While Indigenous people are overrepresented in Canada's prisons and in the toxic drug supply crisis, we lack data on the harms related to opioids for Indigenous people with experiences of incarceration.
Tenzin Butsang, Natalie Owl, Amanda Butler, Hollie Sabourin, Ruth Croxford, Lacey Gislason, Fiona G. Kouyoumdjian   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sex differences in pre-incarceration mental illness, substance use, injury and sexually transmitted infections and health service utilization: a longitudinal linkage study of people serving federal sentences in Ontario

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, Arthur McLuhan, Leslie A. Keown, Kinwah Fung, Flora I. Matheson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Burden of opioid toxicity death in the fentanyl-dominant era for people who experience incarceration in Ontario, Canada, 2015–2020: a whole population retrospective cohort study

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives To describe mortality due to opioid toxicity among people who experienced incarceration in Ontario between 2015 and 2020, during the fentanyl-dominant era.Design In this retrospective cohort study, we linked Ontario coronial data on opioid ...
Dale Guenter, Tara Gomes, Ahmed M Bayoumi, Ruth Croxford, Fiona Kouyoumdjian, Susan J Bondy, Claire Bodkin, Leonora Regenstreif, Amanda Butler, Hanaya Akbari, Katherine E McLeod, Tharsan Kanagalingam, Lori A Kiefer, Aaron Michael Orkin, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

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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Working to Avoid Incarceration: Jail Threat and Labor Market Outcomes for Noncustodial Fathers Facing Child Support Enforcement

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020
Child support enforcement is among several contexts in which work requirements are enforced by incarceration for noncompliance. Rather than creating barriers to employment, such incarceration threats may pressure subjects to work more, under worse ...
Noah Zatz, Michael A. Stoll
doaj   +1 more source

"How America Disguises its Violence: Colonialism, Mass Incarceration, and the Need for Resistant Imagination" [PDF]

, 2019
This paper examines how a delusive social imaginary of criminal-justice has underpinned contemporary U.S. mass incarceration and encouraged widespread indifference to its violence.
Stone-Mediatore, Shari
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Estimating and explaining ethnic disparities in the cumulative risk of paternal incarceration in Denmark

Demographic Research, 2020
Background: Paternal incarceration is a well-known risk factor for poor child outcomes. Although existing research documents the prevalence of paternal incarceration and racial/ethnic disparities in this risk, research in this area is still sorely ...
Anne Sofie Tegner Anker, Lars H. Andersen, Christopher Wildeman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Study of Free‐Space Optical Quantum Network: Review and Prospectives

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Free from the constraints of fiber connections, free‐space quantum network enables longer and more flexible quantum network connections. This review summarizes and comparatively analyzes free‐space quantum network experiments based on ground stations, satellites, and mobile platforms.
Hua‐Ying Liu, Zhenda Xie, Shining Zhu
wiley   +1 more source

Utilization of addiction treatment among U.S. adults with history of incarceration and substance use disorders

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2019
Background The high prevalence of substance use disorders (SUDs) among incarcerated adults in the U.S. is well-known, but there has been less examination of SUD treatment and rates of incarceration among the population of adults with SUDs as the ...
Jack Tsai, Xian Gu
doaj   +1 more source

The Prison Paradox: More Incarceration Will Not Make Us Safer [PDF]

, 2017
Despite its widespread use, research shows that the effect of incarceration as a deterrent to crime is minimal at best, and has been diminishing for several years.
Don Stemen
core   +1 more source