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The Needs of Incarcerated Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review …
(3 days ago) WEBResults: 31 eligible studies consisting of 5435 incarcerated pregnant women were included in the review. The needs of incarcerated pregnant women comprised six general categories: healthcare needs including prenatal, labor, delivery, and postpartum services; educational needs on pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting; the support needs to be …
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8724729/
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Women’s Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration - PMC
(4 days ago) WEBAlthough some recent articles have provided a more complete picture of the incarceration–health relationship by considering how rates of incarceration could affect women’s health at the neighborhood (e.g., Clear 2007, Hatzenbuehler et al. 2015), state (e.g., Johnson & Raphael 2009, Light & Marshall 2018, Schnittker et al. 2015), and even
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266712/
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‘You’re setting a lot of people up for failure - Health & Justice
(5 days ago) WEBBetween 1980 and 2019, the United States (U.S.) saw a 665% increase in the number of incarcerated women, more than double the pace of growth among men (Carson, 2020; Minor-Harper, 1982; Sawyer, 2018).Incarcerated women’s physical and mental health conditions and needs differ significantly from incarcerated men and from women in the …
https://healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40352-022-00166-w
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Prison: Pipeline to Women’s Preventative Health - PMC
(3 days ago) WEBIn her highly acclaimed book “Jailcare”, Dr. Carolyn Sufrin explores how and why prison can paradoxically serve as a place where women find healthcare. 1 Unfortunately, much of healthcare in prisons remains fragmented, if available at all. As the rate of incarceration for women continues to increase and more and more women …
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6546428/
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Health care for people who are incarcerated - Nature
(Just Now) WEBSome incarcerated individuals have unique health-care needs, including people who are pregnant, transgender and elderly. Over the past 40 years, the number of incarcerated women increased
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-021-00288-9
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Reproductive Health Care for Incarcerated Pregnant, Postpartum
(2 days ago) WEBABSTRACT: Obstetrician–gynecologists and other women’s health care practitioners can support efforts to improve health care for incarcerated pregnant, postpartum, and nonpregnant individuals. The majority of incarcerated women are parents and are of reproductive age, which has important implications for their reproductive health care …
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Reproductive health care for incarcerated women in the prenatal …
(7 days ago) WEBThe health care needs of incarcerated women have been neglected compared to those of men for two primary reasons (ACOG, 2021). First, women compose a fraction of the incarcerated population of prisons and jails: only 10% of incarcerated individuals (Kajstura & Sawyer, 2024; Sawyer & Wagner, 2023). Second, the criminal …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0884217524000479
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Full article: Identifying and Treating Incarcerated Women …
(6 days ago) WEBThe prevalence of co-occurring mental health issues among incarcerated women was estimated through a meta-analysis at approximately 10.1%. Citation 45 Another study of incarcerated women specifically suggested the prevalence rate might be higher at 20%. Citation 46 Commonly reported co-occurring disorders (CODs)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2147/SAR.S409944
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Reproductive Justice, Health Disparities And Incarcerated …
(2 days ago) WEBFor instance, one study found a preva-lence of chlamydia of 14% among women entering jail21—a much higher rate than the nationally reported prevalence of less than 5% among nonincarcerated women.22 HIV affects 2.4% of women in prison,23 compared with 0.18% of non-incarcerated women24 and 1.8% of incarcerated men.25 In addition, 50% of …
https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/research_article/file_attachments/4721315.pdf
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A Global View of Women, Prison, and Aftercare: A Call for Reform
(8 days ago) WEBThe purpose of this article is to acknowledge the global treatment of women in prison as a form of State violence against women and provide policy reform for incarcerated women worldwide. Before embarking on the recommendations for reform, it is necessary to examine women's incarceration trends worldwide and the gendered …
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10778012221085997
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Structural racism and the impact on incarcerated midlife women
(8 days ago) WEBThe United States incarcerates more women than any other nation in the world, because of the “war on drugs” [].Over 60% of the women in federal prisons are serving sentences for drug offenses and in many states, the rates are higher for alcohol and drug-related crimes [].However, the majority of offenses committed by women in prisons …
https://womensmidlifehealthjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40695-022-00081-y
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New report, Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023, …
(1 days ago) WEBA report released today by the Prison Policy Initiative and the ACLU Campaign for Smart Justice presents the most recent and comprehensive data on how many women are locked up in the U.S., in what kinds of facilities, and why; as well as detailed data on incarcerated women’s demographic makeup and health. Women in …
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/03/01/womens_pie_2023/
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“I’m not alone, my story matters”: Incarcerated women’s …
(5 days ago) WEBMost women who are incarcerated—56-82% according to best estimates—have experienced sexual violence (Karlsson & Zielinski, 2020).Sexual violence is well known to increase risk for psychiatric disorders (Dworkin, 2018).Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder, and drug and alcohol use disorders are …
https://healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40352-021-00148-4
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Inadequate Health Care: A Significant Problem Affecting …
(7 days ago) WEBThe United States prison system is generally built on a male-specific model, leaving many correctional facilities significantly unprepared to meet the unique biological, psychological, and social health needs of women. This has a negative impact on the health of female inmate populations and presents a challenge that must be addressed.
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Health Care in U.S. Correctional Facilities — A Limited and …
(1 days ago) WEBA 2019 New Yorker article reported that 1500 lawsuits had been filed between 2013 and 2018 against two of the largest U.S. providers of jail health care (Corizon Health and Wellpath) for neglect
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2211252
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Women In Prison Are Struggling To Access Mental Health Care
(8 days ago) WEBThe Reentry Initiative (TRI), is one CBO that, pre-pandemic, provided incarcerated women with extra mental health support in the eight months leading up to their release, as well as reintegration
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Mental Health Symptom Reduction in US Adults Postincarceration
(8 days ago) WEBPurpose: The United States incarcerates a disproportionate number of individuals with mental health concerns, and social workers are the primary professionals interacting with this group as they reenter the community from prison. This prompts the need for effective behavioral health reentry interventions to support the transition from …
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10497315241253778
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Women’s Health Care in Correctional settings (2020)
(1 days ago) WEBFor instance, the chronic stress that characterizes the lives of many incarcerated women, including factors such as unstable housing, poverty, exposure to trauma and violence, addiction, and mental illness, may influence menstrual bleeding. In one study, up to 40% of incarcerated women had abnormal menstrual bleeding (Allsworth et al., 2007).
https://www.ncchc.org/position-statements/womens-health-care-in-correctional-settings-2020/
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Addressing Trauma in Women's Prisons - National Institute of Justice
(8 days ago) WEBThe population of women behind bars is surging, and with it the need and opportunity for services addressing the traumatic past experiences that in many instances contributed to women’s criminal convictions and incarceration. This article originally appeared in the May/June 2022 issue of Corrections Today as submitted by the National …
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/addressing-trauma-womens-prisons
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Women's Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023
(4 days ago) WEBIn the first year of the pandemic, we saw significant reductions in women’s prison and jail populations: The number of women in prisons dropped by 23% during 2020, and jail populations fell even faster, down 37% by the end of 2020. These are the kinds of year-over-year changes needed to actually end the mass incarceration of women. …
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023women.html
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Mothers desperate to make ends meet sometimes end up behind …
(9 days ago) WEBDespite a reduction in crime in the last 20 years in Canada, many women attempting to make ends meet for their families end up colliding with the prison system. In Canada, women’s prisons are
https://theconversation.com/mothers-desperate-to-make-ends-meet-sometimes-end-up-behind-bars-204020
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The Health of Incarcerated Pregnant Women: Some Much Needed …
(3 days ago) WEBIn this issue of AJPH, Sufrin et al. (p. 799) provide a year (2016–2017) of much-needed data on pregnancy and birth outcomes in 22 US state prison systems and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The overall percentage (approximately 4%) of women who were pregnant on admission is similar to 2004 data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 3 but …
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6459626/
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An Attractive Target: Do Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness …
(6 days ago) WEBDrawing on survey data collected from 223 women across two Pennsylvania prisons, this article investigates whether perceptions of physical attractiveness operate as protective or risk factors for victimization experienced while incarcerated.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15564886.2024.2356828
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Public Health Considerations for Correctional Health
(6 days ago) WEBCorrectional health is community health. CDC provides treatment guidelines and other correctional health resources. Correctional health encompasses all aspects of health and well-being for adults and juveniles who are justice system*-involved. This starts at the point of arrest, continues at detention or incarceration, and carries through after
https://www.cdc.gov/correctional-health/about/index.html
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The Painful Reality of Being an Incarcerated Mother ACLU
(4 days ago) WEBIncarcerated women have high rates of histories of physical and sexual abuse, trauma, and mental health and substance use disorders. While incarcerated, women are more likely than incarcerated men to face sexual abuse or harassment by correctional staff, and they experience serious psychological distress due to …
https://www.aclu.org/news/prisoners-rights/the-painful-reality-of-being-an-incarcerated-mother
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Incarceration - Healthy People 2030 health.gov
(9 days ago) WEBThe Bureau of Justice Statistics defines the incarcerated population as the population of inmates confined in a prison or a jail. 1 State and federal prisons house people sentenced to more than 1 year of incarceration. 2 Local jails hold people sentenced to less than 1 year; people who violate parole or probation; and those awaiting trial
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When Prison and Mental Illness Amount to a Death Sentence
(7 days ago) WEBIt was 1:19 p.m. on Sept. 6, 2019, in the Danville Correctional Center, a medium-security prison a few hours south of Chicago. Mr. Johnson, 21 and serving a short sentence for gun possession, was
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/us/politics/prison-mental-health-care.html
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Anti-abortion activist who led a clinic blockade is sentenced to …
(7 days ago) WEBBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN. Updated 2:48 PM PDT, May 14, 2024. WASHINGTON (AP) — An anti-abortion activist who led others on an invasion and blockade of a reproductive health clinic in the nation’s capital was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly five years in prison. Lauren Handy, 30, was among several people convicted of …
https://apnews.com/article/lauren-handy-abortion-clinic-blockade-ab461332b6c83d1c4d7f4d6175d04fbc
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Women's health is so much more than abortion - Washington Times
(3 days ago) WEBWomen’s health is a critical matter that is not advanced by exposing women to the risks of surgical or chemical abortion. Instead, it is a recipe for danger. Risks include damage to the cervix
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/21/womens-health-is-so-much-more-than-abortion/
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About Adverse Childhood Experiences Adverse Childhood …
(1 days ago) WEBInstability due to household members being in jail or prison. The examples above are not a complete list of adverse experiences. Many other traumatic experiences could impact health and well-being. ACEs-related health consequences cost an estimated economic burden of $748 billion annually in Bermuda, Canada, and the …
https://www.cdc.gov/aces/about/index.html
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Birth Control Pills Make Some Women Miserable. But Are They …
(4 days ago) WEBTen percent of women had prescriptions for the pill in 2023, up from 7.1 percent in 2018. The pill has a reputation as a reliable, if flawed, form of birth control. Its known side effects
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/well/live/birth-control-pill-women.html
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Health Disparities and Incarcerated Women: A Population Ignored
(3 days ago) WEBBecause incarcerated women are “invisible,” there has been little in the way of research and policy development that would advance their health status. Thus it is no surprise that for the most part, the health of incarcerated women is worse than that of incarcerated men and than that of women in the general population. 1. Go to:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449417/
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Serial killer Robert Pickton savagely attacked in prison - New York …
(8 days ago) WEB00:49. The Canadian serial killer who lured over two dozen female victims to his pig farm is clinging to life after he was viciously attacked in prison, officials said. Robert Pickton, 74, was in
https://nypost.com/2024/05/22/world-news/serial-killer-robert-pickton-savagely-attacked-in-prison/
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Trial for Class Action Lawsuit Over Troubled Women’s Prison
(4 days ago) WEBThe trial for a class action lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons over sexual assault and retaliation at an East Bay federal women’s prison is slated to start in June of next year. The brief virtual court hearing comes during a turbulent time for the prison embattled in sexual assault charges. It is the first public hearing since
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A Canadian serial killer who brought victims to his pig farm is
(7 days ago) WEBA 51-year-old inmate was in custody for the assault Sunday at a prison in Quebec, police spokesman Hugues Beaulieu said. The 74-year-old Pickton was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2007, with the maximum parole ineligibility period of 25 years, after being charged with the murders of …
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Notorious serial killer who murdered over 20 women assaulted in …
(1 days ago) WEBConvicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who killed over 20 women, has been hospitalized and is in life-threatening condition after an assault at a Quebec prison, authorities said Tuesday.
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Iran's Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi says she faces new trial
(6 days ago) WEBIn a message from Evin prison where she is being held, Ms Mohammadi said the trial relates to an audio post, in which she condemned a "full-scale war against women" by the Iranian regime.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nnzln0ge1o
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