Provisions of the Affordable Care Act offer new opportunities to apply a public health and
medical perspective to the complex relationship between involvement in the criminal justice …

Fortunately, even amid the currently polarized state of US politics, there are opportunities to
promote a public health approach to reforming the criminal justice system. The Affordable …

With 2.1 million Americans behind bars, the United States incarcerates more people per
capita than any other country in the world. This article examines the ways mass …

In the past decade, many constituencies have questioned the efficacy, cost, and unintended
consequences of mass incarceration in the United States. Although substantial evidence …

Mass incarceration is a sociostructural driver of profound health inequalities in the United
States. The political and economic forces underpinning mass incarceration are deeply …

This supplement issue represents AJPH's most recent enterprise into the topic of
incarceration and health but not its first. The October 2005 issue ofAJPH3 that focused on …

In the early 1980s, former US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary
Margaret M. Heckler convened the first federal group of experts to conduct a comprehensive …

The theme of the October 2005 issue of the Journal was the public health consequences of
imprisonment. This issue illuminated the wideranging health care needs of the more than …

Despite the disproportionate prevalence of incarceration in communities of color, few studies
have examined its contribution to health disparities. We examined whether a lifetime history …

No other industrialized democracy has a carceral system that is as expansive, punitive, and
racialized as that of the United States. More than 2.2 million people in 2018 were …