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Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities
Public Health Behind Bars From Prisons to Communities examines the burden of illness in the growing prison population, and analyzes the impact on public health as prisoners are released. This book makes a timely case for correctional health care that is humane for those incarcerated and beneficial to the communities they reenter.
543 pages, Hardcover
First published October 17, 2007
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November 12, 2017
Chapters reviewed:
1. Robert Greifinger, Thirty Years Since Estelle v. Gamble: Looking Forward, Not Wayward
3. Jon Wool, Litigating for Better Medical Care
4. R. Samuel Paz, Accommodating Disabilities in Jails and Prisons
19. Andrea Balis, Female Prisoners and the Case for Gender-Specific Treatment and Reentry Programs
21. Raymond Patterson & Robert Greifinger, Treatment of Mental Illness in Correctional Settings
This is a collection of scholarship written from a very administrative-legal (and therefore conservative) perspective, which was very unexciting for my purposes, but chs. 3 & 4 provided passable overviews of, respectively, the development of prisoners' right to medical care and retrenchment through the PLRA and the high "deliberate indifference" standard; and the ADA in the carceral context.
In ch. 3 on prisoner medical care litigation, Wool calls on courts to step up to their responsibility for protecting prisoners' rights, as the political unpopularity of the cause makes it extremely difficult for reform to come from the majoritarian branches.
Ch. 19 identifies a problem but offering substantive proposals to address it are outside of the scope of the essay. Balis synthesizes data showing that incarcerated women are far more likely to have experienced abuse, to suffer from substance abuse, mental illness, and have a higher prevalence of HIV/AIDS and chronic illness than incarcerated men. The issue of incarcerated women who were formerly primary caregivers of children is also flagged as an issue to consider in thinking about re-entry.
1. Robert Greifinger, Thirty Years Since Estelle v. Gamble: Looking Forward, Not Wayward
3. Jon Wool, Litigating for Better Medical Care
4. R. Samuel Paz, Accommodating Disabilities in Jails and Prisons
19. Andrea Balis, Female Prisoners and the Case for Gender-Specific Treatment and Reentry Programs
21. Raymond Patterson & Robert Greifinger, Treatment of Mental Illness in Correctional Settings
This is a collection of scholarship written from a very administrative-legal (and therefore conservative) perspective, which was very unexciting for my purposes, but chs. 3 & 4 provided passable overviews of, respectively, the development of prisoners' right to medical care and retrenchment through the PLRA and the high "deliberate indifference" standard; and the ADA in the carceral context.
In ch. 3 on prisoner medical care litigation, Wool calls on courts to step up to their responsibility for protecting prisoners' rights, as the political unpopularity of the cause makes it extremely difficult for reform to come from the majoritarian branches.
Ch. 19 identifies a problem but offering substantive proposals to address it are outside of the scope of the essay. Balis synthesizes data showing that incarcerated women are far more likely to have experienced abuse, to suffer from substance abuse, mental illness, and have a higher prevalence of HIV/AIDS and chronic illness than incarcerated men. The issue of incarcerated women who were formerly primary caregivers of children is also flagged as an issue to consider in thinking about re-entry.
February 12, 2026
More prescriptive than I thought it would be (I was looking more for expository)
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