Cyrus Ahalt Archives

01 Sep From Compliance to Prevention: Understanding and Strengthening Responses to Reports of Sexual Misconduct in California State Men’s Prisons

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Drawing on publicly available data, policy and oversight reports, and interviews with subject matter experts, this report evaluates what is currently known about sexual misconduct within CDCR, with a focus on men’s prisons, and identifies key factors that influence prevention, reporting, investigations, accountability, and sexual...

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 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 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. ...

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...

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....

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...

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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01 Sep From Compliance to Prevention: Understanding and Strengthening Responses to Reports of Sexual Misconduct in California State Men’s Prisons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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