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14 Oct Balancing the Rights to Protection and Participation: A Call for Expanded Access to Ethically Conducted Correctional Health Research

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Incarcerated individuals, over 95% of whom are eventually released, experience high burdens of chronic disease and behavioral health and social risk factors. Understanding the health needs of this population is critical to ensuring that general medicine physicians in prisons and in the community are adequately...

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14 Oct Addressing the aging crisis in U.S. criminal justice health care

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The U.S. criminal justice population is aging at a significantly more rapid rate than the overall U.S. population, with the population of older adults in prison having more than tripled since 1990. ...

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14 Oct Older adults in jail: high rates and early onset of geriatric conditions

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The number of older adults in the criminal justice system is rapidly increasing. While this population is thought to experience an early onset of aging-related health conditions ("accelerated aging"), studies have not directly compared rates of geriatric conditions in this population to those found in...

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14 Oct We Take Care of Patients but We Don’t Advocate for Them: Advance Care Planning in Prison or Jail

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To investigate correctional healthcare providers' knowledge of and experience with advance care planning (ACP), their perspectives on barriers to ACP in correctional settings, and how to overcome those barriers....

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14 Oct My older clients fall through every crack in the system: geriatrics knowledge of legal professionals

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With the number of older adult arrestees and prisoners increasing rapidly, legal professionals increasingly provide front-line identification and response to age-related health conditions (including cognitive and physical impairments) that may affect legal outcomes, such as the ability to participate in one's defense or stay safe...

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14 Oct Police on the front line of community geriatric health care: challenges and opportunities

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As the population ages, police increasingly serve as first responders to incidents involving older adults in which aging-related health plays a critical role. ...

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14 Oct Good Cop Better Cop: Evaluation of a Geriatrics Training Program for Police

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A lecture on aging-related health conditions pertinent to police work followed by three experiential trainings on how it feels to be "old."...

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14 Oct For Seriously Ill Prisoners Consider Evidence-Based Compassionate Release Policies

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n January 5, 2017, then-President Obama published a commentary in the Harvard Law Review outlining the rationale behind his administration?s efforts to advance criminal justice reform....

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14 Oct No One Wants to Die Alone: Incarcerated Patients’ Knowledge and Attitudes About Early Medical Release

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Deaths among incarcerated individuals have steadily increased in the U.S., exceeding 5000 in 2014. Nearly every state has a policy to allow patients with serious life-limiting illness to apply for release from prison or jail to die in the community ("early medical release"). ...

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14 Oct A case study of solitary confinement reform in Oregon

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The continued use of solitary confinement has sparked international public health and human rights criticisms and concerns. This carceral practice has been linked repeatedly to a range of serious psychological harms among incarcerated persons....

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