Healthcare
The health needs and outcomes of incarcerated people
- There are far fewer HIV-positive people in prison that in the past, but the HIV rate in prison is still triple the total U.S. rate (Created: 2023)
- While HIV prevalence has dropped in most states, some Southern states have actually seen rates go up (Created: 2023)
- Most states still have laws criminalizing HIV on the books in 2023 (Created: 2023)
- People under community supervision face a constellation of health concerns and report more disabilities (Created: 2023)
- Changes in county-level arrest rates following statewide Medicaid expansion (Created: 2022)
- People in state prisons suffer disproportionately from various medical conditions compared to the overall U.S. population (Created: 2022)
- Black, Native, and multiracial people in state prisons are more likely than white people to have asthma, diabetes, and hypertension (Created: 2022)
- Hepatitis C is highly treatable, yet 4 out of 5 people in state prisons who have ever had hepatitis C, still have it (Created: 2022)
- Half of people in state prisons had a substance use disorder in the year before they went to prison, but only 1 in 10 has received treatment (Created: 2022)
- Rates of several chronic conditions have increased in state prisons since the last survey in 2004 (Created: 2022)
- Older people in state prisons are plagued with chronic health conditions (Created: 2022)
- People in state prisons were disproportionately uninsured or receiving Medicaid before their incarceration (Created: 2022)
- Disabilities are much more common among people in state prisons than they are among non-incarcerated adults in the U.S. (Created: 2022)
- People in state prisons disproportionately report having disabilities (Created: 2022)
- About four percent of women in state prisons were pregnant when admitted, but not all of them have received the basic care you'd expect (Created: 2022)
- Underlying problems: Past drug use and substance use disorders are extremely common among people in state prisons (Created: 2022)
- Many prisons are still charging medical copays during COVID-19 (Created: 2022)
- What does it really mean when a state prison allows abortion? (Created: 2021)
- What does it really mean when a jail allows abortion? (Created: 2021)
- State abortion policies range from hostile to supportive, which can affect abortion access in prisons and jails (Created: 2021)
- Many prison systems prioritized vaccinations for incarcerated people, but others still lag behind (Created: 2021)
- Why are so few incarcerated postpartum women expressing breast milk, even in prisons and jails that allow it? (Created: 2021)
- Many prisons and jails offer pregnant women medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), but narrow policies restrict who receives it (Created: 2021)
- People with incarcerated immediate family members have reduced life expectancy (Created: 2021)
- About half of people in state and federal prisons are vaccinated (Created: 2021)
- The jail population is the highest it's been since April (Created: 2020)
- The NYC jail population decline has halted, despite the ongoing pandemic (Created: 2020)
- Only about half of all states require correctional staff to wear masks (Created: 2020)
- Less than one-third of all states require incarcerated people to wear face masks (Created: 2020)
- The number of people in jails has leveled off since the major population reduction efforts of March and April (Created: 2020)
- The number of people in large jails has leveled off since the major population reduction efforts of March and April (Created: 2020)
- Jail populations in smaller jails have been creeping back up since June, reversing the population drops of March and April (Created: 2020)
- Evaluating state efforts to prevent COVID-19 deaths behind bars (Created: 2020)
- High imprisonment communities have higher youth asthma rates (Created: 2020)
- Women in prisons and jails in 2017 who were pregnant when admitted (Created: 2019)
- People with multiple arrests have serious health needs (Created: 2019)
- Rates of mental illness and substance use disorder are much higher among "frequent utilizers" of jails (Created: 2019)
- Jail "frequent utilizers" often lack access to regular healthcare (Created: 2019)
- Some medical conditions make people especially vulnerable to high temperatures. They are especially common in prison. (Created: 2019)
- Certain medical conditions make people especially vulnerable to high temperatures. They are especially common in prisons. (Created: 2019)
- Recently incarcerated people are over 40 times more likely to die from an opioid overdose (Created: 2018)
- Incarceration and HIV infection disparities for Black men (Created: 2017)
- Relationship between high incarceration rate of Black men and rate of HIV infections among Black women (Created: 2017)
- Making health care unaffordable has many hidden costs (Created: 2017)
- What would a minimum wage worker in each state have to pay for a doctor's visit if they were charged like incarcerated people? (Created: 2017)
