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: Policing Public Health: Carceral-Logic Lessons from a Mid-Size City Policing Public Health: Carceral-Logic Lessons from a Mid-Size City
Where a health state is intertwined with carceral logics, enforcement becomes coercive.
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Read more: Community-Based Response to Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 Pandemic Community-Based Response to Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 Pandemic
The pandemic showed that community-based supports can foster safety and accountability without requiring state intervention.
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Read more: Blurring the Line Between Public Health and Public Safety Blurring the Line Between Public Health and Public Safety
Collective movement struggles during the twin crises of COVID-19 and the 2020 uprisings have helped blur the concepts of public safety and public health.
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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.
