HIV Infection, TB, and the Health Crisis in Corrections

Koehler, Richard J.

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“…Despite better provision of services that target healthcare needs of prisoners (Anno 2004), many enter prison with diseases or contract diseases because of the prison environment. Several scholars have documented intraprison spread of diseases, including tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus (Horsburgh et al 1990;Koehler 1994;Krebs and Simmons 2002;Macalino et al 2004;Mahon 1996;Mutter 1994). Of the state prisoners who died between 2001 and 2004, a physician or medical staff evaluated 94.1%, 93.3% received some type of medication, and 20.1% were provided surgical services (Mumola 2007).…”

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Incarcerating death: Mortality in U.S. state correctional facilities, 1985–1998

Patterson

2010

Demography

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Using data from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics and Census Bureau, I estimate death rates of working-age prisoners and nonprisoners by sex and race. Incarceration was more detrimental to females in comparison to their male counterparts in the period covered by this study. White male prisoners had higher death rates than white males who were not in prison. Black male prisoners, however consistently exhibited lower death rates than black male nonprisoners did. Additionally, the findings indicate that while the relative difference in mortality levels of white and black males was quite high outside ofprison, it essentially disappeared in prison. Notably, removing deaths caused by firearms and motor vehicles in the nonprison population accounted for some of the mortality differential between black prisoners and nonprisoners. The death rates of the other groups analyzed suggest that prison is an unhealthy environment; yet, prison appears to be a healthier place than the typical environment of the nonincarcerated black male population. These findings suggest that firearms and motor vehicle accidents do not sufficiently explain the higher death rates of black males, and they indicate that a lack of basic healthcare may be implicated in the death rates of black males not incarcerated.

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Section: Basic Healthcare In Prisonmentioning

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Incarcerating death: Mortality in U.S. state correctional facilities, 1985–1998

Patterson

2010

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“…Female offenders present more serious physical and mental health problems, whose treatment typically becomes the burden of the state due to punitive antidrug policies. In fact, jails and other detention facilities, hospital emergency rooms, and homeless shelters have tradition-ally served neglected and vulnerable individuals, such as female drug offenders, with multiple health care needs (Koehler, 1994).…”

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The Impact of Drug Use and Crime Involvement on Health Problems Among Female Drug Offenders

Anderson¹,

Rosay²,

Saum

2002

The Prison Journal

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Health problems comprise some of the most important concerns about female offenders today. In comparison to others, they suffer more frequent and serious chronic disease, acute illness, and injuries. Although many have argued that these higher rates can be explained by poverty, inaccessible medical care, and poor nutrition, few have studied the impact of the severity of criminal and substance abuse involvement on the same. Consequently, the authors ask if these factors help explain the likelihood of leading health problems of female cocaine-abusing offenders. Bivariate logistic regression analyses on women (N = 848) from Dade County, Florida, show important effects of criminal and substance abuse involvement on chronic disease and illness, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS, and mental illness. However, after controlling for demographic variables with multivariate logistic models, their predictive power decreases substantially. The findings lend insights to both theoretical models explaining health problems and to policy recommendations for female offenders and inmates.The latter part of the 20th century witnessed numerous troubling trends for criminal justice policy, several of which experts and practitioners have warned we are ill-equipped to handle. For instance, although the gap between males' and females' drug use and criminal involvement has remained over the years (with minor exception), latter 20th-century criminal justice policies have helped reduce the divide between them at arrest and incarceration.The relative growth of the female criminal justice population raises new issues for social policy and the agencies that administer it. One concern is the health of female offenders. Female offenders present more serious physical and mental health problems, whose treatment typically becomes the burden of the state due to punitive antidrug policies. In fact, jails and other detention facilities, hospital emergency rooms, and homeless shelters have tradition-

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Use of Health Care Services in a Sample of Drug-Involved Offenders

McCorkel

Butzin

Martin

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American Behavioral Scientist

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There is evidence to suggest that drug-involved offenders are more likely to have chronic health problems, which would lead to the expectation that this group would be consumers of a disproportionate amount of health care services. However, other characteristics of the group, including higher rates of unemployment and less likelihood of health insurance, suggest that they may consume relatively low amounts of health services. This study reports on a cohort of drug-involved offenders in Delaware who were interviewed just before release from prison and again at several points following release. When compared to age- and gender-corrected norms from the National Health Interview Survey, the use of health services for drug- and alcohol-related conditions as well as for other physical conditions were all substantially higher for this group of offenders. Discussion centers on the role of drug treatment programs in reducing the need for health care services.

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HIV Infection, TB, and the Health Crisis in Corrections

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Incarcerating death: Mortality in U.S. state correctional facilities, 1985–1998

Incarcerating death: Mortality in U.S. state correctional facilities, 1985–1998

The Impact of Drug Use and Crime Involvement on Health Problems Among Female Drug Offenders

Use of Health Care Services in a Sample of Drug-Involved Offenders

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