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Fact Sheet: Incarceration and Mental Health - Cornell University

(3 days ago) WEB2005: 743 per 100,000. 2009: 749 per 100,000 42. In 2011, approximately 2,300,000 individuals were incarcerated in the United State, a higher incarceration than any other nation. 43. Incarcerated persons with mental health disorders are more likely …

https://psychiatry.weill.cornell.edu/research-institutes/dewitt-wallace-institute-psychiatry/issues-mental-health-policy/fact-sheet-0

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Mass Incarceration as a Public Health Issue - The Effects of

(5 days ago) WEBTwo speakers at the workshop presented overviews of incarceration in the United States and its effects on health. In his keynote address, Jim Parsons, vice president and research director at the Vera Institute of Justice, drew largely on data collected by the Vera Institute to examine the consequences of incarceration for the incarcerated, their …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK555719/

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Mental Health Prison Policy Initiative

(2 days ago) WEBIn state prisons: 74% +. Percent of police shootings in 2015 that involved a mental health crisis: 27% +. Portion of people jailed 3+ times within a year who report having a moderate or serious mental illness: 27% +. Lasting effects of incarceration: post-traumatic stress, anxiety, impaired decision-making, and more +.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/mental_health/

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The impact of imprisonment on individuals’ mental health and …

(5 days ago) WEBIn many contexts worldwide, penal sanctions aim to reintegrate individuals into society, and prison sentences are one such sanction. However, research has found that imprisonment has a weak or null effect, or even a criminogenic effect on recidivism rates [], as well as a detrimental impact on inmates’ mental health and well-being [2,3,4,5], …

https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-023-01252-w

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Inmate Mental Health and the Pains of Imprisonment

(2 days ago) WEBMental health is a serious and pervasive issue in the American system of mass incarceration. Worldwide, rates of mental illness are higher among the incarcerated population than in the general population, and this is also true in the United States (Fazel and Baillargeon 2011; Fazel and Danesh 2002; Prins 2014). A Bureau of Justice …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2156869318785424

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Public Health Policy to End Mass Incarceration - The …

(1 days ago) WEBThe abysmal state of U.S. public health and safety cannot be separated from the destructive effects of mass incarceration. Undoing these harms requires abolishing oppressive systems and constructin

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2208239

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A Multilevel Approach to Understanding Mass Incarceration and …

(7 days ago) WEBA Multilevel Approach to Understanding Mass Incarceration and Health: Key Directions for Research and Practice, an article from American Journal of people—electoral politics. 2 Parental and partner incarceration are associated with the increased risk of several mental and physical health problems, including cardiovascular …

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305432

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Mental Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration Psychiatric Services

(7 days ago) WEBMental Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration. Arrest, incarceration, and other forms of criminal legal involvement can shape people’s lives in profound ways. In this issue, Rotter and Compton ( 1) call attention to the often overlooked ties between criminalization and mental health, pointing to effects far beyond incarceration. The …

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.73104

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Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023 Prison Policy …

(9 days ago) WEBIn the first year of the pandemic, we saw significant reductions in prison and jail populations: the number of people in prisons dropped by 15% during 2020, and jail populations fell even faster, down …

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html

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The Prevalence of Mental Illnesses in U.S. State Prisons: A …

(3 days ago) WEBIn the United States, however, the criminal justice system and mass incarceration are institutions with unique racialized, economic, and political contexts that make cross-country comparisons difficult. If mental health and substance use treatment access and utilization affect the prevalence of mental illnesses in prisons, prison

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182175/

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For Health Equity, We Must End Mass Incarceration

(7 days ago) WEBAccess to mental health care is limited because it is very demanding and poorly rewarded. The mass closure of mental hospitals also correlates with a rise in prison population. In a tragic irony, the decriminalization of cannabis may be adding to the incidence of mental illness and subsequent incarceration of people.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2806497

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Identifying Practices for Reducing Incarceration of Those with …

(Just Now) WEBAddressing mental health and substance use concerns in an incarceration setting can be costly, time-consuming, and often challenging. Additionally, release from incarceration is a high-risk time when the connection to community-based treatment and services may not occur, contributing to poor long-term outcomes for individuals involved …

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2020/identifying-practices-for-reducing-incarceration-of-those-with-mental-illnesses-a-study-of-stepping-up

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The Mental Health Effects of Being in Prison - Verywell Mind

(7 days ago) WEBMental Health Concerns Among Incarcerated Individuals . According to the American Psychological Association, 64% of incarcerated individuals in jail, 54% of incarcerated individuals in state prison, and 45% of incarcerated individuals in federal prison report mental health concerns. Substance abuse is rampant among incarcerated …

https://www.verywellmind.com/menta-health-effects-of-prison-5071300

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A consequence of mass incarceration: county-level - Health

(5 days ago) WEBMass incarceration has mental health consequences on those directly affected; some studies have also shown spillover effects on the physical health of the surrounding population. There is a dearth of research on the spillover mental health consequences of mass incarceration. This study aimed to quantify a consequence of …

https://healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40352-022-00194-6

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Mental Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration - Psychiatric …

(2 days ago) WEBMental Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration. Arrest, incarceration, and other forms of criminal legal involvement can shape people’s lives in profound ways. In this issue, Rotter and Compton (1) call attention to the often overlooked ties between criminalization and mental health, pointing to effects far beyond incarceration.

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/epdf/10.1176/appi.ps.73104

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Prison And Jail Reentry And Health Health Affairs

(9 days ago) WEBThis creates challenges related to public health, housing, education, and employment for reentering people, families, and the communities hit hard by mass incarceration. Incarceration takes place

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20210928.343531

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Mass Incarceration Threatens Health Equity in America - RWJF

(2 days ago) WEBMass incarceration’s effects on health last far beyond the period of imprisonment. It impacts social, educational, and economic opportunities; increases the prevalence of chronic health conditions; and decreases life expectancy, with a 2015 study suggesting that each year spent in prison corresponds with a two-year reduction in life expectancy.

https://www.rwjf.org/en/insights/our-research/2019/01/mass-incarceration-threatens-health-equity-in-america.html

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Mass Incarceration and Racial Inequality - PMC - National Center …

(3 days ago) WEBMass incarceration, and other ways in which the criminal justice system infiltrates the lives of families, has critical implications for inequality. In terms of mental health, the stress associated with imprisonment also puts formerly incarcerated individuals at higher risk for psychological problems and depression

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9540942/

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Mass incarceration, public health, and widening inequality in the USA

(3 days ago) WEBIn this Series paper, we examine how mass incarceration shapes inequality in health. The USA is the world leader in incarceration, which disproportionately affects black populations. Nearly one in three black men will ever be imprisoned, and nearly half of black women currently have a family member or extended family member who is in prison. …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)30259-3/fulltext

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Mass incarceration and severe mental illness in the USA

(3 days ago) WEBIn their Series paper, Christopher Wildeman and Emily Wang (April 8, p 1464)1 described the harms associated with mass incarceration in the USA. The authors noted that deinstitutionalisation of mental health had “undoubtedly helped to both launch mass incarceration and keep it going”. The problem of reduced psychiatric bed availability is …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)31479-4/fulltext

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On Life Support Vera Institute

(6 days ago) WEBOverview. Mass incarceration is one of the major public health challenges facing the United States, as the millions of people cycling through the courts, jails, and prisons every year experience far higher rates of chronic health problems, substance use, and mental illness than the general population.

https://www.vera.org/publications/on-life-support-public-health-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration

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