Education

Dr. Carolyn Sufrin (OBGYN and medical anthropologist), discusses health rights and politics of reproduction

Pregnant & Shackled: Why inmates are still giving birth cuffed and bound.

Documentary 13th on Netflix 

UCLA IDEAL Curriculum Module on Incarceration

ADVOCACY

 ACLU National Prison Project 

1. https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-national-prison-project

2. Dedicated to ensure US prisons and jails comply with the constitution, domestic law, and international human rights including providing adequate medical care and mental health care

American College of Correctional Physicians 

1. https://accpmed.org/ 

2. The American College of Correctional Physicians (ACCP), formerly the Society of Correctional Physicians (SCP), is dedicated to the professional development of physicians in the specialty of correctional medicine. ACCP members are united through the goal of improving public health by examining issues specific to the incarcerated and identifying solutions for medical professionals.

National Commission on Correctional Healthcare 

1. https://www.ncchc.org/about 

2. The mission of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care is to improve the quality of health care in jails, prisons and juvenile confinement facilities. NCCHC establishes standards for health services in correctional facilities

RESEARCH

The health and healthcare of US prisoners: Results of a National Survey

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661478/

Medicine and Mass Incarceration: Education and Advocacy in the New York City Jail System

• https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medicine-and-mass-incarceration-education-and-advocacy-new-york-city-jail-system/2017-09

Why Prisoners Deserve Health Care

• https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/why-prisoners-deserve-health-care/2008-02

Estelle v Gamble 1976

• https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/why-prisoners-deserve-health-care/2008-02#:~:text=The%20legal%20reasons%20for%20providing,1976%20Supreme%20Court%20Estelle%20v.&text=This%20interpretation%20created%20a%20de,or%20not%20(pretrial%20detainees).

COVID 19 in prisons and jails in the US

• https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2765271

Understanding and Addressing Health Disparities and Health Needs of Justice-Involved Populations

• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0033354918813089

Hepatitis C in prisons 

• https://theappeal.org/hepatitis-c-prison/

Clinical care of incarcerated adults – UpToDate reference 

• https://www.uptodate.com/contents/clinical-care-of-incarcerated-adults?search=care%20of%20incarcerated&source=search_result&selectedTitle=3~150&usage_type=default&display_rank=3

Clinical care of incarcerated women – UpToDate reference 

• https://www.uptodate.com/contents/prenatal-care-for-incarcerated-women?search=care%20of%20incarcerated&source=search_result&selectedTitle=1~150&usage_type=default&display_rank=1

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

• Book by Michelle Alexander

ACEP Recognizing the Needs of Incarcerated Patients in the Emergency Department

• https://www.acep.org/administration/resources/recognizing-the-needs-of-incarcerated-patients-in-the-emergency-department/

Security Hunger-Strike Prisoners in the Emergency Department: Physiological and Laboratory Findings.

Emergency department utilization by a jail population

Six-month emergency department use among older adults following jail incarceration

Association of legal intervention injuries with race and ethnicity among patients treated in emergency departments in California

 Reduction in jail emergency department visits and closure after implementation of on-site urgent care

 Inmate health care provided in an emergency department

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