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20 Jul Reimagining San Quentin: Recommendations to Transform San Quentin State Prison into a Rehabilitation Center

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This report was prepared for California Governor Gavin Newsom to provide recommendations to transform San Quentin State Prison — the oldest and most notorious prison in California — from a maximum-security prison into a rehabilitation center focused on improving public safety....

28 Apr Strengthening the Women’s Prison Workforce: Recruitment and Training

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This report recommends strategies to maximize workforce development in women’s prisons, focusing on recruitment and training, to build a CDCR workforce equipped to support the health, wellness and rehabilitation of incarcerated women. The application of these integrated recommendations will enhance outcomes for both staff and...

28 Apr Emerging Innovations to Optimize Women’s Health, Wellness, and Empowerment in Prison

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This report describes approaches that prison systems have deployed to optimize health, wellness and empowerment for incarcerated women. It draws from international examples to describe optimal approaches, their connection to health impacts, and actionable steps for implementation in California....

28 Apr Opportunities to Optimize Programming to Support Health and Wellness in California’s Women’s Prisons

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This report presents recommendations to reimagine California’s women’s prisons with a focus on health, wellness and empowerment through the creation of health and wellness centers and an emphasis on individualized rehabilitation. It includes action steps to ensure that programming is gender-responsive, trauma-informed, timely, accessible, high-quality,...

14 Oct Respiratory pandemic preparedness learnings from the June 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin California State Prison

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This study aims to characterize the June 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin California State Prison and to describe what made San Quentin so vulnerable to uncontrolled transmission. ...

14 Oct Urgent Memo – COVID-19 Outbreak: San Quentin Prison

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San Quentin California State Prison is experiencing a rapidly evolving COVID-19 (SARSCoV-2) outbreak with profoundly inadequate resources to keep it from developing into a full-blown local epidemic and health care crisis in the prison and surrounding communities. ...

14 Oct Evaluation of the April-May 2020 COVID-19 Outbreak at California Men’s Colony

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In summer 2020, a multidisciplinary team of academics and health professionals conducted an on-site evaluation of the April-May 2020 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak at California Men’s Colony (CMC), located in San Luis Obispo (SLO) County, California. ...

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...

14 Oct Words matter: a call for humanizing and respectful language to describe people who experience incarceration

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Words matter when describing people involved in the criminal justice system because language can have a significant impact upon health, wellbeing, and access to health information and services. ...

14 Oct Ageing prisoners: An introduction to geriatric health-care challenges in correctional facilities

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The rise in the number of older prisoners in many nations has been described as a correctional ?ageing crisis? which poses an urgent financial, medical and programmatic challenge for correctional health-care systems....

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20 Jul Reimagining San Quentin: Recommendations to Transform San Quentin State Prison into a Rehabilitation Center

28 Apr Strengthening the Women’s Prison Workforce: Recruitment and Training

28 Apr Emerging Innovations to Optimize Women’s Health, Wellness, and Empowerment in Prison

28 Apr Opportunities to Optimize Programming to Support Health and Wellness in California’s Women’s Prisons

14 Oct Respiratory pandemic preparedness learnings from the June 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin California State Prison

14 Oct Urgent Memo – COVID-19 Outbreak: San Quentin Prison

14 Oct Evaluation of the April-May 2020 COVID-19 Outbreak at California Men’s Colony

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

14 Oct Words matter: a call for humanizing and respectful language to describe people who experience incarceration

14 Oct Ageing prisoners: An introduction to geriatric health-care challenges in correctional facilities

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