ArticleAnnals of internal medicine2011
Balancing punishment and compassion for seriously ill prisoners.
Article in Annals of internal medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Perceptions and experiences of clinicians and correctional officers facilitating palliative care for people in prison: A systematic review and meta-synthesis.Palliative medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Nursing home availability for incarcerated persons granted compassionate release.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Retrospective review of deaths in the Massachusetts department of corrections after passage of medical parole.BMC public health · 2025Article
- A stepwise guide for healthcare professionals requesting compassionate release for patients who are incarcerated.International journal of prisoner health · 2023Review
- The growing geriatric prison population: A dire public health consequence of mass incarceration.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021Article
- Older and incarcerated: policy implications of aging prison populations.International journal of prisoner health · 2017Article
- The Rikers Island Hot Spotters: Defining the Needs of the Most Frequently Incarcerated.American journal of public health · 2015Article
- Will I stay or can I go? Assisted suicide in prison.Journal of public health policy · 2015Article
- Who Wants to Die in Here? Perspectives of Prisoners with Chronic Conditions.Journal of hospice and palliative nursing : JHPN : the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association · 2014Article
- Aging in correctional custody: setting a policy agenda for older prisoner health care.American journal of public health · 2012Article
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Abstract
Compassionate release is a program that allows some eligible, seriously ill prisoners to die outside of prison before sentence completion. It became a matter of federal statute in 1984 and has been adopted by most U.S. prison jurisdictions. Incarceration is justified on 4 principles: retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, and incapacitation. Compassionate release derives from the theory that changes in health status may affect these principles and thus alter justification for incarceration and sentence completion. The medical profession is intricately involved in this process because eligibility for consideration for compassionate release is generally based on medical evidence. Many policy experts are calling for broader use of compassionate release because of many factors, such as an aging prison population, overcrowding, the increasing deaths in custody, and the soaring medical costs of the criminal justice system. Even so, the medical eligibility criteria of many compassionate-release guidelines--which often assume a definitive prognosis--are clinically flawed, and procedural barriers may further limit their rational application. We propose changes to address these flaws.
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