The case for prison depopulation: Prison health, public safety and the pandemic

Sapers, Howard

doi:10.35502/jcswb.136

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“…Similarly, the application for long-term care requires a health assessment to be conducted by a Physician or Nurse Practitioner and applicants must have a valid Ontario Health Insurance Plan card. These eligibility requirements both delay and/or restrict the access of marginalized older adults into long-term care [ 24 ]. Similarly, health system reform will also require examining policies that allow for the discrimination of a sub-set of long-term care applicants.…”

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“…Despite these recognized challenges, recent increases in incarceration rates [ 23 ] has focused research on the compromised health profiles of aging populations inside correctional facilities [ 19 ]. As such, the intersection of older adults and incarceration fixates on increasing the care provided within correctional institutions [ 24 ] rather than on providing adequate supports across the care continuum [ 25 ].…”

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Lost in transition? Community residential facility staff and stakeholder perspectives on previously incarcerated older adults’ transitions into long-term care

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Background Establishing an effective continuum of care is a pivotal part of providing support for older populations. In contemporary practice; however, a subset of older adults experience delayed entry and/or are denied access to appropriate care. While previously incarcerated older adults often face barriers to accessing health care services to support community reintegration, there has been limited research on their transitions into long-term care. Exploring these transitions, we aim to highlight the challenges of securing long-term care services for previously incarcerated older adults and shed light on the contextual landscape that reinforces the inequitable care of marginalized older populations across the care continuum. Methods We performed a case study of a Community Residential Facility (CRF) for previously incarcerated older adults which leverages best practices in transitional care interventions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with CRF staff and community stakeholders to determine the challenges and barriers of this population when reintegrating back into the community. A secondary thematic analysis was conducted to specifically examine the challenges of accessing long-term care. A code manual representing the project themes (e.g., access to care, long-term care, inequitable experiences) was tested and revised, following an iterative collaborative qualitative analysis (ICQA) process. Results The findings indicate that previously incarcerated older adults experience delayed access and/or are denied entry into long-term care due to stigma and a culture of risk that overshadow the admissions process. These circumstances combined with few available long-term care options and the prominence of complex populations already in long-term care contribute to the inequitable access barriers of previously incarcerated older adults seeking entry into long-term care. Conclusions We emphasize the many strengths of utilizing transitional care interventions to support previously incarcerated older adults as they transition into long-term care including: 1) education & training, 2) advocacy, and 3) a shared responsibility of care. On the other hand, we underscore that more work is needed to redress the layered bureaucracy of long-term care admissions processes, the lack of long-term care options and the barriers imposed by restrictive long-term care eligibility criteria that sustain the inequitable care of marginalized older populations.

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Lost in transition? Community residential facility staff and stakeholder perspectives on previously incarcerated older adults’ transitions into long-term care

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“…How this is achieved and to what extent must involve considering the circumstances, as well as the needs of those people particularly concerning their own safety and wellbeing, while balancing this with social security. Once prisoners are released into society, they require support in once again becoming a part of society, and also need to join the health system [22,23,24,25,26]. On the other hand, when it comes to mass testing to stop the spread of the disease, regardless of whether symptoms are present or not, and systematic retesting, advice is not detailed in the guidelines.…”

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COVID-19 control measures in correctional facilities of selected countries – A literature overview

Augustynowicz¹,

Opolski²,

Borowska³

et al. 2022

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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“…The self-defeating nature of our current approach to 'justice' has been brought into stark relief over the past two years, when prisons and jails have become incubators of the COVID-19 virus (PPP, 2021;Sapers, 2020;Minkler et al, 2020). With few exceptions, during the 2 nd and 3 rd waves prisons and jails in the United States and Canada failed to decarcerate in the name of public health (Clear, 2020;.…”

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(Beyond) Life in Prison

Walby

Munn

Piché

2022

JPP

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The case for prison depopulation: Prison health, public safety and the pandemic

Cited by 5 publications

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Lost in transition? Community residential facility staff and stakeholder perspectives on previously incarcerated older adults’ transitions into long-term care

Lost in transition? Community residential facility staff and stakeholder perspectives on previously incarcerated older adults’ transitions into long-term care

COVID-19 control measures in correctional facilities of selected countries – A literature overview

(Beyond) Life in Prison

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