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.
Ashley Hickson +6 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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Analyzing mass incarceration [PDF]
Science, 2021 With almost 2 million people in confinement, the United States locks up more people per capita than any other nation. Understanding the reasons and then forging a path to reduce mass incarceration in America will require better research and analyses of the government policies and spending that sustain the US carceral system.
Sean Joe
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Health Care in the Age of Mass Incarceration: A Selective Course for Medical Students in Their Preclinical Years [PDF]
MedEdPORTAL, 2020 Introduction While medical school curricula increasingly address health disparities, content regarding health care for persons impacted by incarceration is a persistent and notable gap.
Julia Gips +8 more
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Dual Punishment: Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children [PDF]
Columbia Social Work Review, 2012 Children with incarcerated parents are among the most at-risk populations in the United States. The recent trend toward mass incarceration in the United States, especially of women, has harmful implications for children because often their primary ...
Julie Smyth
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Mass incarceration and public health: the association between black jail incarceration and adverse birth outcomes among black women in Louisiana [PDF]
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019 Background A growing body of evidence is beginning to highlight how mass incarceration shapes inequalities in population health. Non-Hispanic blacks are disproportionately affected by incarceration and criminal law enforcement, an enduring legacy of a ...
Lauren Dyer +4 more
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Why Has a Progressive Court Failed to Protect the Prison Population against COVID-19? Mass Incarceration and Brazil’s Supreme Court [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2023 Despite acknowledging the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic for the prison population, Brazil’s Supreme Court declined to issue structural injunctions during the health crisis ordering lower courts to consider these risks when making incarceration-related ...
Daniel Wei Liang Wang +6 more
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Potential drivers of HIV acquisition in African-American women related to mass incarceration: an agent-based modelling study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2018 Background The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Incarceration can increase HIV risk behaviors for individuals involved with the criminal justice system and may be a driver of HIV acquisition within the community.
Joëlla W. Adams +7 more
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Mass Incarceration: Slavery Renamed [PDF]
Themis: Research Journal of Justice Studies and Forensic Science, 2018 This paper aims to analyze the connections between slavery and mass incarceration. It begins by giving background information regarding the topic and setting the framework to argue that slavery was never abolished, but was instead continued using mass incarceration.
Pereira, Samantha
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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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