Mass Incarceration as a Public Health Issue

Public Health In Prisons During COVID-19 | Columbia Public Health

Mass incarceration removes working-age adults from local labor markets and makes it difficult for them to find jobs when they return. Similarly, ...

MASS INCARCERATION | ACLU

Since 1970, the number of incarcerated people has increased sevenfold to 2.3 million in jail and prison today, far outpacing population growth ...

Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration - Jason Schnittker

Prisons are charged at the same time with being punitive and therapeutic, with denying freedom and administering treatment, with confining and rehabilitating.

Pediatric Health and System Impacts of Mass Incarceration, 2009 ...

The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world; incarceration's direct and indirect toll on the health and health care use of youth is rarely ...

How mass incarceration harms U.S. health, in 5 charts

Mass incarceration harms the health of prisoners, their families and the people who work in detention centers.

How to Talk with Patients about Incarceration and Health

Given overcrowding in many correctional facilities [6], incarcerated patients might also be at high risk for contracting infectious diseases such as TB, HIV, or ...

Incarceration & Reentry - ASPE - HHS.gov

There is also more family distress and community instability. Roughly 1 in 28 children currently has a parent behind bars. Mass incarceration has been a major ...

Public Health Considerations for Correctional Health - CDC

Additionally, a high proportion of people with justice system involvement have a history of unstable housing and mental health and substance use ...

Issues / COVID-19 and Mass Incarceration - Fair and Just Prosecution

Over half of our nation's COVID-19 deaths and infections among people incarcerated and working in local, state and federal correctional and detention facilities ...

Why Decarceration Is Vital For Public Health Amid COVID-19

The COVID-19 crisis in America's prisons disproportionately impacts communities of color due to decades of mass incarceration and puts all ...

Reforming Health Care for Patients in Prison | The Regulatory Review

One study found that among incarcerated individuals with a persistent medical problem, 20 percent of those in state facilities and 68 percent of ...

We Call Mass Incarceration an Epidemic. Let's Treat it like a Disease.

Using social epidemiology to inform public health interventions, in conjunction with addressing the most impactful structural sources of mass ...

One in Five: How Mass Incarceration Deepens Inequality and Harms ...

But mass incarceration's hold on vast public resources, its imposition of financial burdens, and the obstacles erected for people with criminal ...

Incarceration & social inequality

Mass incarceration thus deepens disadvantage and forecloses mobility for the most marginal in society. Finally, carceral inequalities are intergenerational, ...

Prison And Jail Reentry And Health - Health Affairs

Mass incarceration in the United States is a public health crisis that disproportionately affects Black and Brown people and their communities.

HEALTH HARMS OF INCARCERATION - The Aspen Institute

and other public health issues. This move is more possible today than ever ... D . Page 96. Community Health Impacts of Mass Incarceration 87. Community Health ...

Long-Term Solutions to the Overincarceration of People With Mental ...

Prisons and jails are some of the United States' largest providers of mental health services. ... Every year, more than 2 million people with ...

The History, Causes, and Facts on Mass Incarceration

Lack of Mental Health Services –A huge proportion of incarcerated people face mental health issues, approximately 1.2 million, according to Mental Health ...

Opinion | Mass Imprisonment and Public Health - The New York Times

A new report identifies the American incarceration epidemic as one of the greatest public health challenges of our time.

These 5 Charts Show Why Mass Incarceration Harms Everyone's ...

Even though incarceration often forces individuals to remain sober, being incarcerated generally exacerbates mental health disorders. Research ...