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ArticleJournal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care2021

Compassion in Corrections: The Struggle Between Security and Health Care.

Dana Lehrer

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Article in Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Nurses' Perspectives on Cancer Care for People Who Experience Incarceration in British Columbia, Canada: Challenges and Opportunities.The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres · 2026
    Article
  3. Carceral Health Care.The New England journal of medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Dana LehrerCollege of Nursing, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many incarcerated individuals have chronic health conditions and mental health issues that have not been addressed by health care providers in years, if not decades. Patients in correctional settings are isolated from society and have reduced access to health care. Prison is a lonely scary place. How then do nurses impact the lives of these patients? It can be challenging given safety concerns, resource issues, and the bias of not only the nurse but also the security staff with whom they are working. Nurses have a responsibility to their patients to beneficence, justice, nonmaleficence, and autonomy. Compassion in corrections, though, is often viewed as naivete or weakness. Should these qualities be left out of corrections? By identifying one's own bias and asserting firm consistent practices, correctional nurses can set an example of unbiased care. The standards of care are the minimum required, but are they enough?

Indexed as

EmpathyPrisonsCorrectional FacilitiesDelivery of Health CareHumanscompassioncorrectionshealth carepatient centered

Identifiers

PMID34232776
PMCPMC9041396

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