Fact Sheet: A Blueprint for Reducing Mass Incarceration in America [PDF]
, 2016 America has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. Our criminal justice system drives and reinforces deep-seated racial inequity.
Lauren-Brooke Eisen
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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 McCauley EJ +3 more
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Punishment and Welfare: Paternal Incarceration and Families’ Receipt of Public Assistance [PDF]
The US criminal justice and welfare systems together form important government interventions into the lives of the poor. This paper considers how imprisonment is related to welfare receipt for offenders and their families.
Naomi F. Sugie
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The Correlation between Single-parent Homes and Incarceration in the United States of America
Asian Journal of Social Health and BehaviorIntroduction: Although the US prison population had remained stable throughout the early and mid-1900s, from 1978 to 2010, it suddenly exploded, growing over 500%. Approximately 10 years before this incarceration epidemic, an epidemic of US single-parent
Matthew L. Harrison +2 more
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The relationship between community public health, behavioral health service accessibility, and mass incarceration. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2022 Ramezani N +6 more
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Guilty By Reason of Insanity: Unforeseen Consequences of California\u27s Deinstitutionalization Policy [PDF]
, 2015 Beginning with the passage of the Lanterman-Petris- Short Act in 1969, deinstitutionalization in California has had a devastating effect on the mentally ill.
Rushforth, Jen
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Carceral epidemiology: mass incarceration and structural racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Lancet Public Health, 2022 LeMasters K +5 more
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The growing geriatric prison population: A dire public health consequence of mass incarceration. [PDF]
J Am Geriatr Soc, 2021 Williams B, DiTomas M, Pachynski A.
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Preexposure prophylaxis strategies for African-American women affected by mass incarceration. [PDF]
AIDS, 2021 Adams JW +7 more
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