prison and public health
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This week, Maddy describes the wild and rugged conditions within American prisons and the poor health outcomes of incarcerated people. Stick around to hear why Maddy is "anti-prison" and what a more fair and just system could look like.  Sources Referenced: US Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://bjs.ojp.gov/data/key-statistics Wikipedia Page referenced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate#United_States World Prison Brief: https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total BMC article: https://ascpjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13722-019-0136-6 Effects on Community:  https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031811-124614 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/508591 https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2012.301148 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376871606000718?via%3Dihub https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/recidivism-prisoners-released-34-states-2012-5-year-follow-period-2012-2017 This list is incomplete. Please email Maddy at [email protected] if you'd like a more specific source of information
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