Psychology & Psychiatry
Trauma-focused therapy may hold key to reducing women's offending
Women prisoners might benefit from female-specific treatment that addresses the traumas common among women.
Jun 12, 2019
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News tagged with prison system
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Landmark study compiles data on pregnant women in prisons
As an expert in reproductive health care for incarcerated women, Carolyn Sufrin kept running up against a troubling obstacle: She needed prisons to provide hard data that simply didn't exist.
Apr 12, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Systematic incarceration of African American males is a wrong, costly path
Mental health experts from Meharry Medical College School of Medicine have released the first comprehensive report on the correlation between the incarceration of African American males and substance abuse and other health ...
Nov 11, 2012
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Health
Elderly prisoners need better medical care: report
Soaring numbers of older, sicker prisoners are causing an unprecedented health care challenge for the nation's criminal justice system, according to a new UCSF report.
Jun 14, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How going from care to prison compounds women's trauma
In the year to June 2021, for every 1,000 women in custody in England and Wales, 3,808 incidents of self-harm were recorded. This represented a shocking increase of 16% on the previous year. Between March 2007 and March 2018, ...
Jan 18, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Some prisons highly successful in vaccinating inmates
Some prison systems in the United States have been able to vaccinate high numbers of inmates against COVID-19, and that success could point to ways to convince skeptical people in the general public to get vaccinated.
Jun 02, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study tallies huge cost of hepatitis C drugs for RI prisons
A new study finds that effective new hepatitis C drugs are so expensive the state of Rhode Island would have to spend almost twice its entire prison health budget to treat all its chronically infected inmates. Even providing ...
Apr 09, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Calif. doc with 'cancer cure' gets 14 years prison (Update)
(AP)—A California doctor has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for bilking her patients out of more than $1 million by promising that an herbal supplement could cure late-stage cancer and other diseases.
May 17, 2013
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Other
Cultural attitudes impede organ donations in China
(AP)—China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country's transplant system said Friday that ingrained cultural attitudes are impeding the rise of donations among ...
May 17, 2013
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Irish court: No 'right to die' for paralyzed woman (Update)
(AP)—A paralyzed Irish woman who wants to die cannot legally commit suicide with her partner's help, Ireland's Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that moved some in the courtroom to tears.
Apr 29, 2013
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