Public Health and Prisons: Priorities in the Age of Mass Incarceration [PDF]
Annual Review of 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 ...
David H Cloud, Brie A Williams
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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.
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Women's Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration [PDF]
Annual Review of Sociology, 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.
Christopher Wildeman, Hedwig Lee
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COVID-19 and mass incarceration: a call for urgent action [PDF]
The Lancet Public Health, 2020 As of September 23, 2020, the USA had both the highest number of COVID-19 cases and the largest incarcerated population in the world. Approximately 2·3 million people are currently incarcerated in prisons and jails in the USA.
Alexandria Macmadu +5 more
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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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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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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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Carceral epidemiology: mass incarceration and structural racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Lancet Public Health, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing epidemic of mass incarceration are closely intertwined, as COVID-19 entered US prisons and jails at astounding rates. Although observers warned of the swiftness with which COVID-19 could devastate people who are held
LeMasters K +5 more
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Columbia Social Work Review, 2019 Black and brown men are negatively impacted by the criminal justice system and have been incarcerated at higher rates than any other group in the United States (Knafo, 2013).
Durrell Malik Washington
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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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