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01 Sep “It has given us an opportunity to reinvent ourselves”: Exploring a Novel Intervention to Recalibrate the Professional Identities of Prison Staff

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This study examines the Contact Mentor Program, an intervention adapted from Norway that trains U.S. prison staff to serve as supportive mentors to incarcerated individuals. Findings suggest that staff experienced greater autonomy, organizational support, and sense of purpose, indicating the program may help improve job...

14 Oct COVID-19 outbreak in a state prison: a case study on the implementation of key public health recommendations for containment and prevention

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People incarcerated in US prisons have been disproportionately harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. That prisons are such efficient superspreading environments can be attributed to several known factors....

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 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 History of Incarceration and Its Association With Geriatric and Chronic Health Outcomes in Older Adulthood

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Although incarcerated older adults experience higher rates of chronic disease and geriatric syndromes, it is unknown whether community-dwelling older adults with a history of incarceration are also at risk for worse health outcomes....

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 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....

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 Cognition and Incarceration: Cognitive Impairment and Its Associated Outcomes in Older Adults in Jail

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To determine prevalence of, and outcomes associated with, a positive screen for cognitive impairment in older adults in jail....