ReviewAnnual review of public health2023
Public Health and Prisons: Priorities in the Age of Mass Incarceration.
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27 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mental health disorders and risk of solitary confinement among incarcerated individuals: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study from Norway.BMJ mental health · 2026Article
- 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 · 2026Article
- Cumulative lifetime trauma exposures in a nationally representative prison sample: findings from the mental health and substance use disorders prevalence survey.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Evaluating Crowdsourced Data Collection for Carceral Death Surveillance: Pilot Study Using Amazon Mechanical Turk.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Reconstructing infectious disease prevention mechanisms in carceral settings in transitional states: lessons from the Chinese experience.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Epidemiological analysis of schizophrenia and incarceration: A multi-center exploration of the criminalization of mental illness in the United States.Schizophrenia research · 2026Article
- Carework as resistance: How incarcerated women care for each other to survive carcerality amid a global pandemic.Medical anthropology quarterly · 2025Article
- State-level changes in racial disparities in probation and parole rates in the United States, 2001-2018.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in Texas prisons from 2016 to 2023.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2025Article
- The Impacts of Incarceration on Health and Wellbeing in Hawai'i and Pathways to Decarceration.Hawai'i journal of health & social welfare · 2025Article
- Cardiovascular Death and Access to Health Care Among Individuals Incarcerated in US State Prisons From 2001 to 2019.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Cardiovascular Mortality in Incarcerated Populations: An Example of Health Inequalities Within Health Inequalities.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Individual- and Area-Level Incarceration and Mortality.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- The Intersecting Effects of Lifetime Experiences of Homelessness and Incarceration on Cognitive Aging and Dementia Risk Factors in the United States.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- The role of epidemiologists in addressing the public health consequences of the United States criminal legal system.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Linkages between incarceration and health for older adults.Health & justice · 2025Review
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- Employment and mental health for adults on probation, 2002-2021.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Carceral Health Care.The New England journal of medicine · 2025Review
- A Primer on Carceral Health for Clinicians: Care Delivery, Regulatory Oversight, Legal and Ethical Considerations, and Clinician Responsibilities.Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2025Review
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Abstract
Mass incarceration is a sociostructural driver of profound health inequalities in the United States. The political and economic forces underpinning mass incarceration are deeply rooted in centuries of the enslavement of people of African descent and the genocide and displacement of Indigenous people and is inextricably connected to labor exploitation, racial discrimination, the criminalization of immigration, and behavioral health problems such as mental illness and substance use disorders. This article focuses on major public health crises and advances in state and federal prisons and discusses a range of practical strategies for health scholars, practitioners, and activists to promote the health and dignity of incarcerated people. It begins by summarizing the historical and sociostructural factors that have led to mass incarceration in the United States. It then describes the ways in which prison conditions create or worsen chronic, communicable, and behavioral health conditions, while highlighting priority areas for public health research and intervention to improve the health of incarcerated people, including decarceral solutions that can profoundly minimize-and perhaps one day help abolish-the use of prisons.
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