14 Oct Consensus Statement from the Santa Cruz Summit on Solitary Confinement and Health
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14 Oct Medical Isolation and Solitary Confinement: Balancing Health and Humanity in US Jails and Prisons During COVID-19
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In the face of the continually worsening COVID-19 pandemic, jails and prisons have become the greatest vectors of community transmission and are a point of heightened crisis and fear within the global crisis....
14 Oct Occupational Health: A Key to the Control of COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities
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Coronavirus disease 2019 has swept through prisons in much the same way it has nursing homes: after being introduced by staff or newly arrived residents, it spreads efficiently, including to many with medical vulnerabilities. Yet, many correctional workers lack basic protections. ...
14 Oct Providing Ethical and Humane Care to Hospitalized Incarcerated Patients With COVID-19
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The COVID-19 pandemic is devastating the health of hundreds of thousands of people who live and work in U.S. jails and prisons. Due to dozens of large outbreaks in correctional facilities, tens of thousands of seriously ill incarcerated people are receiving medical care in the...
14 Oct Ten Urgent Priorities Based on Lessons Learned From More Than a Half Million Known COVID-19 Cases in US Prisons
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COVID-19 is ravaging US prisons. Prison residents and staff must be prioritized for vaccination, but a rapidly mutating virus and high rates of continued spread require an urgent, coordinated public health response....
14 Oct Public Health and Prisons: Priorities in the Age of Mass Incarceration
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Mass incarceration is a sociostructural driver of profound health inequalities in the United States. The political and economic forces underpinning mass incarceration are deeply rooted in centuries of the enslavement of people of African descent and the genocide and displacement of Indigenous people and is...
14 Sep Shackled at the End of Life: We Can Do Better
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Between 1993 and 2013, the number of state prison inmates in this country who are age 55 years or older increased approximately fourfold. Nearly 1 in 10 individuals incarcerated in U.S. prisons is serving a life sentence. If current trends hold, it is projected that by 2030 the number of...
19 Aug Prisons and COVID-19: A Desperate Call for Gerontological Expertise in Correctional Health Care
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The large and continued growth of the older adult population within U.S. prisons affects not only criminal justice policy and correctional health practice, but also gerontology. Amidst the unfolding COVID-19 crisis, associated knowledge and skills surrounding older adulthood will be critical to assuring the needs...
19 Aug Transforming Prison Culture to Improve Correctional Staff Wellness and Outcomes for Adults in Custody “The Oregon Way”
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In the 1970s and 80s, the U.S. experienced a national crime wave which gave rise to a “tough on crime” abandonment of rehabilitation in most jails and prisons and ushered in an era of mass incarceration. Despite an emphasis on institutional security and control in...
19 Aug Role of a US-Norway Exchange in Placing Health and Well-Being at the Center of US Prison Reform
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Living and working conditions in many US correctional facilities are damaging to the health of incarcerated people and correctional staff. In response, experts have called for efforts to improve the health of incarcerated people, and correctional systems have invested in “officer wellness” programs. ...