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Recidivism after release from a prison nursery program.
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- Mental Disorders Among Mothers in Contact with the Criminal Justice System: A Scoping Review and Meta-analysis.Community mental health journal · 2024Pooled it
- Maternal health and incarceration: advancing pregnancy justice through research.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Incarceration Postpartum: Is There a Right to Prison Nurseries?Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2025Article
- Correlates of Six-Month Recidivism among Rural Incarcerated Women.Women & criminal justice · 2025Article
- Are custodial-based mothers and children's units evaluated, effective and aligned with a human rights-based approach? - A systematic review of the evidence.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Navigating pregnancy and early motherhood in prison: a thematic analysis of mothers' experiences.Health & justice · 2022Article
- Breastfeeding in Incarcerated Settings in the United States: A National Survey of Frequency and Policies.Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine · 2021Article
- Making mothers in jail: carceral reproduction of normative motherhood.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2018Article
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- Ethnographic assessment of an alternative to incarceration for women with minor children.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2015Article
- Promoting Health Care for Pregnant Women in Prison: A Review of International Guidelines.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchReview
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objectiveTo analyze 3-year recidivism after release from a prison nursery, a secure unit that allows imprisoned women to care for their infants. DESIGN AND SAMPLE: Descriptive study of 139 women who co-resided with their infants between 2001 and 2007 in a New York State prison nursery. MEASURES: Administrative criminal justice data were analyzed along with prospective study data on demographic, mental health, and prison nursery policy-related factors.
resultsResults reflect a sample of young women of color with histories of clinically significant depressive symptoms and substance dependence, who were convicted of nonviolent crimes and had multiple prior arrests. Three years after release 86.3% remained in the community. Only 4% of women returned to prison for new crimes. Survival modeling indicated that women who had previously violated parole had a significantly shorter mean return to prison time than those who were in the nursery for a new crime.
conclusionWomen released from a prison nursery have a low likelihood of recidivism. Innovative interventions are needed to address incarceration's public health effects. Nurses can partner with criminal justice organizations to develop, implement, and evaluate programs to ensure the health needs of criminal justice involved people and their families are met.
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