Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy
Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population.
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Read more: Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed
U.S. incarcerated populations have long dealt with chronic sleep deprivation, often with little to no reprieve.
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Read more: Government Report Finds Care Deficits for Pregnant People in Federal Custody Government Report Finds Care Deficits for Pregnant People in Federal Custody
Pregnant and postpartum people in federal custody receive care directed by policies that fail to meet national standards, a new report finds,
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Read more: COVID-19 and Women in the US Criminal Legal System COVID-19 and Women in the US Criminal Legal System
Health and economic inequities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately harm women involved in the criminal legal system.
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Read more: Jails and COVID-19: An Overlooked Public Health Crisis in Philadelphia Jails and COVID-19: An Overlooked Public Health Crisis in Philadelphia
Jails and prisons have continuously struggled to stop the spread of COVID-19 cases. Philadelphia offers an unfortunate case study.
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Read more: Hospitals Bear the Costs of Detention and Incarceration Hospitals Bear the Costs of Detention and Incarceration
While individuals with recent criminal justice involvement represent only 4.2% of the population, they make up 8.5% of emergency department expenditures.
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Read more: Mental Health First Aid Training in Prisons, Police Departments, and the Presidential Election Mental Health First Aid Training in Prisons, Police Departments, and the Presidential Election
By Wendy S. Salkin It has been widely reported and acknowledged that many incarcerated Americans live with mental illness. In 2014, the Treatment Advocacy Center and the National Sheriffs’ Association published The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in Prisons and Jails: A State Survey, a joint report that included the following findings: In 2012,…
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Read more: When Law and Medical Ethics Conflict: The Case of Mohammad Allan When Law and Medical Ethics Conflict: The Case of Mohammad Allan
By Maayan Sudai Mohammad Allan was an administrative detainee in Israel, a Palestinian who had been hunger striking since June 16 to protest his indefinite incarceration. Allan’s health has been deteriorating gradually, and the latest examinations raised concerns that he suffered irreversible brain damage. The crisis in Allan’s health created a tangle for the Israeli government, since releasing…