Incarcerated women face challenges in accessing menstrual hygiene products
A new study has shown that among incarcerated women, many have to trade or barter to access menstrual hygiene products. The study, which...
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The aging prison population: Causes, costs, and consequences
State and federal governments spend increasingly more money on consistently inadequate healthcare for their growing populations of...
Prisons try to adjust as their inmate population grows older
The number of elderly Americans serving time in prison has skyrocketed in recent decades. In 1991, for example, just 3% of the men and...
Community Mental Health Services May Support Reducing Jail Populations
The Stepping Up Initiative — supported by NACo, the American Psychiatric Association Foundation and the Council of State Governments...
WHO/UNODC update guidelines of interventions for HIV, viral hepatitis and STI in closed settings.
In 2022, WHO published the Consolidated guidelines on HIV, viral hepatitis and STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key...
Free Phones to People Newly Released from Rikers
Rikers Island detainees fresh out of lockup — including some with serious mental illnesses — will soon receive free smartphones to better...
CMS Opens Door for Pre-Release Services for Justice-Involved Populations:
In January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a first-of-its-kind waiver allowing California’s Medicaid ...
Solitary Confinement Under The Guise Of Public Health: Lessons Learned From COVID-19 And HIV
In carceral settings, the difference between punitive housing segregation (for example, solitary confinement) and segregation for public...
Incarceration, Housing and HIV
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of HIV/AIDS Housing, which administers the Housing Opportunities for...
Tuberculosis, Public Health and Jail
A new order issued Thursday in Pierce County Superior Court reset the clock on a Tacoma woman's time in jail to continue testing and...
1 in 4 inmates killed in Louisiana jails hadn't been tried yet, study finds
Almost a quarter of inmates who died from violence behind bars in Louisiana over a six-year period were housed primarily in local jails ...
Older Adults and Reentry: "Pretend Freedom"
At least 17,000 adults age 50 and older have been released from Illinois prisons since 2014, and thousands more are in line to come out...
California made prison phone calls free. Others should follow.
Imagine having to go into debt to stay in touch with a loved one — all while fearing for their safety and well-being. That is the grim...
The Reality of Mealtime in Prisons and Jails
Sixty-two percent of formerly incarcerated respondents to a 2020 survey reported that they rarely or never had access to fresh...
Aging in Prison: Elderly population may triple in 20 years
“Where it’s a mandatory sentence, you have no method to get them out and find appropriate places in the community for them," says Richard...
Many Jails Are As Full As They Were Before COVID-19 Pandemic
Jail populations dropped in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic but have now rebounded in many facilities to levels seen in early...
What’s Prison For? Concise diagnosis of a huge American problem
The statistics are familiar but remain startling: America’s incarceration rate per 100,000 is “roughly twice that of Russia’s and...
The Link between Incarceration and Public Housing
Significance Research on mass incarceration has documented its devastating consequences on incarcerated individuals, their families,...
California may allow more ill, dying inmates to leave prison
AP News: California may allow more ill, dying inmates to leave prison California would allow more ill and dying inmates to be released...
Prison At $249 per day, leave people deep in debt
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two decades after her release from prison, Teresa Beatty feels she is still being punished. When her mother died...
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