The growing geriatric prison population: A dire public health consequence of mass incarceration. [PDF]
J Am Geriatr Soc, 2021 In 1985, Mr. Jackson (name and some features changed to protect patient identity) and another man got into a fatal drug-fueled fight; Mr. Jackson received an “indeterminate prison sentence” (7 years to life) for unintentional murder. In prison, he became
Williams B, DiTomas M, Pachynski A.
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Mass Incarceration and Racial Inequality. [PDF]
Am J Econ Sociol, 2018 AbstractDespite two decades of declining crime rates, the United States continues to incarcerate a historically and comparatively large segment of the population. Moreover, incarceration and other forms of criminal justice contact ranging from police stops to community supervision are disproportionately concentrated among African American and Latino ...
Pettit B, Gutierrez C.
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Cancer equity for those impacted by mass incarceration. [PDF]
J Natl Cancer Inst, 2023 The cancer disparities between people with incarceration histories compared with those who do not have those histories are vast. Opportunities for bolstering cancer equity among those impacted by mass incarceration exist in criminal legal system policy ...
Ramaswamy M +9 more
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Public Health and Prisons: Priorities in the Age of Mass Incarceration. [PDF]
Annu Rev Public Health, 2023 Mass incarceration is a sociostructural driver of profound health inequalities in the United States. The political and economic forces underpinning mass incarceration are deeply rooted in centuries of the enslavement of people of African descent and the ...
Cloud DH +3 more
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Are Supervision Violations Filling Prisons? The Role of Probation, Parole, and New Offenses in Driving Mass Incarceration. [PDF]
Socius, 2023 Advocates for reform have highlighted violations of probation and parole conditions as a key driver of mass incarceration. As a 2019 Council of State Governments report declared, supervision violations are “filling prisons and burdening budgets.” Yet few
Phelps MS, Dickens HN, De Andre TB.
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The Mass Incarceration Trauma Framework: A Conceptual Model for Understanding Trauma among Individuals Who Experience Incarceration. [PDF]
Soc Work, 2023 The Mass Incarceration Trauma (MIT) framework is a conceptual model for understanding the role of trauma in the lives of individuals who experience incarceration in the United States. This population faces poverty, violence, and discrimination across the
Morrison M.
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The relationship between community public health, behavioral health service accessibility, and mass incarceration. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2022 Background The relationship between healthcare service accessibility in the community and incarceration is an important, yet not widely understood, phenomenon.
Ramezani N +6 more
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A Call to Action to Public Health Institutions and Teaching to Incorporate Mass Incarceration as a Sociostructural Determinant of Health. [PDF]
Public Health Rep, 2023 Mass incarceration refers to the system of social and racial control in the United States that arrests, convicts, incarcerates, and supervises racial and ethnic minority populations through probation and parole. Mass incarceration is referred to as “mass”
McCauley EJ +3 more
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A consequence of mass incarceration: county-level association between jail incarceration rates and poor mental health days. [PDF]
Health Justice, 2022 Introduction Mass incarceration has mental health consequences on those directly affected; some studies have also shown spillover effects on the physical health of the surrounding population.
Hickson A +6 more
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Women's Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration. [PDF]
Annu Rev Sociol, 2021 Dramatic increases in criminal justice contact in the United States have rendered prison and jail incarceration common for US men and their loved ones, with possible implications for women's health.
Wildeman C, Lee H.
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