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Incarceration and Health

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Forensic Medicine".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 6589

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Homer Venters

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School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, New York, NY 10003, USA
Interests: health and human rights

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagurs,

Mass incarceration has received attention as an example of racism in criminal justice, but the links between mass incarceration, racism and health have been less defined. Morbidity and mortality among incarcerated people and others with criminal justice involvement often focus on the health demographics of those individuals rather than health risks that prisons, jails and immigration detention centers confer to people held in those settings. In addition, correctional systems are often operated to avoid the systemic analysis of health outcomes, especially those that reflect institutional risk from abuse or neglect. Similarly, the systemic health risks conferred by parole, probation and other forms of community supervision are poorly understood. These hidden risks to health in the United States are concentrated among people of color and people with behavioral health concerns, including mental illness and substance use disorders. 

In order to define the health risks of incarceration, and leverage public health organizations and voices in the effort to address the health consequences of mass incarceration, we are dedicating this special issue of Healthcare to Incarceration, racism and health. We are seeking manuscript submissions that can address the following specific questions and areas;

How can we quantify the health risks of incarceration and involvement in the justice system?

What are the effects of COVID-19 responses in carceral settings on heath and health disparities of COVID-19?

What systemic barriers exist to providing evidence-based health care for incarcerated people?

What lessons from addressing racism in community health can be applied to incarceration, racism and health?

We welcome research, review and perspectives manuscripts for this special issue of Healthcare. Please contact the guest editor of this special edition, Dr. Homer Venters, with questions.

Dr. Homer Venters
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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Triaged Out of Care: How Carceral Logics Complicate a ‘Course of Care’ in Solitary Confinement
by Melissa Barragan, Gabriela Gonzalez, Justin Donald Strong, Dallas Augustine, Kelsie Chesnut, Keramet Reiter and Natalie A. Pifer
Healthcare 2022, 10(2), 289; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10020289 - 1 Feb 2022
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Incarceration, along with its most restrictive iteration, solitary confinement, is an increasingly common experience in America. More than two million Americans are currently incarcerated, and at least one-fifth of incarcerated people will experience solitary confinement. Understanding the barriers to care people experience in [...] Read more.
Incarceration, along with its most restrictive iteration, solitary confinement, is an increasingly common experience in America. More than two million Americans are currently incarcerated, and at least one-fifth of incarcerated people will experience solitary confinement. Understanding the barriers to care people experience in prison, and especially in solitary confinement, is key to improving their access to care during and after incarceration. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with a random sample of 106 people living in solitary confinement and a convenience sample of 77 people working in solitary confinement in Washington State, we identify two key barriers to care that people in solitary confinement face: cultural barriers (assumptions that incarcerated people do not need or do not deserve care) and structural barriers (physical spaces and policies that make contacting a healthcare provider difficult). While scholarship has documented both the negative health consequences of solitary confinement and correctional healthcare providers’ challenges navigating between the “dual loyalty” of patient care and security missions, especially within solitary confinement, few have documented the specific mechanisms by which people in solitary confinement are repeatedly triaged out of healthcare access. Understanding these barriers to care is critical not only to improving correctional healthcare delivery but also to improving healthcare access for millions of formerly incarcerated people who have likely had negative experiences seeking healthcare in prison, especially if they were in solitary confinement. Full article
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Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Justice-Involved Health
by Margaret English, Fatimata Sanogo, Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr, Todd Schneberk, Melissa Lee Wilson and Jeffrey Riddell
Healthcare 2021, 9(10), 1302; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9101302 - 30 Sep 2021
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Despite the demonstrated need for sustainable and effective carceral health care, justice-involved medical education curricula are limited, and it’s unclear if informal clinical education is sufficient. Investigators aimed to quantify medical student involvement with carceral populations and explore how students’ knowledge of and [...] Read more.
Despite the demonstrated need for sustainable and effective carceral health care, justice-involved medical education curricula are limited, and it’s unclear if informal clinical education is sufficient. Investigators aimed to quantify medical student involvement with carceral populations and explore how students’ knowledge of and attitudes towards justice-involved patients changed over the course of their training. A survey was designed by the investigators and sent to all current medical students at a single United States medical school. Stata 14.0 was used to compare results between the years of medical school. Differences between groups were tested using linear regression. Most 4th year students reported working in a carceral health setting. An increase in overall knowledge of justice-involved patients was observed as carceral medicine education (ptrend = 0.02), hours worked in a jail (ptrend < 0.01), and substance abuse training (ptrend < 0.01) increased. Overall attitude score increased with the students’ reported number of hours working in a jail (ptrend < 0.01) and the amount of substance abuse training (ptrend < 0.01). Finally, we found a trend of increasing knowledge and attitude scores as the year of standing increased (ptrend < 0.01). Our data suggest that most USC medical students work in a carceral setting during medical school. Didactic and experiential learning opportunities correlated with improved knowledge of and attitude toward justice-involved patients, with increases in both metrics increasing as the year in medical school increased. However, senior medical students still scored poorly. These findings underscore the need for a formal curriculum to train our healthcare workforce in health equity for carceral populations. Full article
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