Looking Back: Decarcerating Immigration Prisons as a Tool for Improved Health.

Caitlin Patler, Altaf Saadi, Ahilan Arulanantham

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Article in American journal of public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

Health Care, Mortality, and Declining Occupancy Rates in California Prisons, 2013-2023.American journal of public health · 2025
Article
Duration in Immigration Detention and Health Harms.JAMA network open · 2025
Article
The health-related experiences of detained immigrants with and without mental illness.Journal of migration and health · 2025
Article
Advancing Research To Address The Health Impacts Of Structural Racism In US Immigration Prisons.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2023
Article
Persistence of Emotional Distress in Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Adolescents Primarily From the Northern Triangle of Central America.JAMA network open · 2023
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in Immigration Detention Centers Requires the Release of Detainees.2021

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Caitlin PatlerCaitlin Patler is with the Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis. Altaf Saadi is with the Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Ahilan Arulanantham is with the Center for Immigration Law & Policy, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles.

Altaf SaadiCaitlin Patler is with the Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis. Altaf Saadi is with the Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Ahilan Arulanantham is with the Center for Immigration Law & Policy, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles.

Ahilan ArulananthamCaitlin Patler is with the Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis. Altaf Saadi is with the Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Ahilan Arulanantham is with the Center for Immigration Law & Policy, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Emigration and ImmigrationPrisonsHumans

Identifiers

PMID37053530

DOI10.2105/AJPH.2023.307293

PMCPMC10262252

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