Prison

According to a recent poll conducted by the American Psychiatric Association, 75% of Americans said mental health support should be provided to incarcerated persons.

The city of Philadelphia has issued a formal apology for the experiments conducted by the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s to 1970s, according to a press release.

LONDON — A high intensity test and treat initiative for hepatitis C elimination in England proved to be beneficial for testing and treating incarcerated individuals, according to results at the International Liver Congress.

Among pregnant women hospitalized for delivery, those who were incarcerated had higher rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes and medical conditions, according to a cross-sectional analysis in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Formerly incarcerated adults with diabetes living in supervised community housing can benefit from accessible, literacy-tailored self-management education, yet data suggest such programs are lacking for this vulnerable population.

Increased crowding in Massachusetts state prisons led to an increase in COVID-19 cases, researchers reported in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The AMA House of Delegates recently updated a policy that seeks to increase access to evidence-based drug addiction treatment among “justice-involved individuals,” a press release said.

Increased incarceration rates in counties across the U.S. were linked to increased risk for mortality from infectious diseases, chronic lower respiratory disease, substance abuse, suicide and multiple other causes, according to research published in Lancet Public Health.

The environment is uninviting and uncaring. It’s loud, it’s cold and it’s dangerous. And it’s even worse for the inmates.

In this episode, I speak with Eric Reinhart of the department of anthropology at Harvard and University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He is also a candidate in adult psychoanalysis at The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. We discuss the impacts of jail cycling on the COVID-19 pandemic, and future directions for reform in our health care system.