JAMA Study shows dramatic increase in mortality risk among incarcerated and recently released.
A recent cohort study involving over 3.25 million U.S. adults examined the impact of individual and community-level incarceration on mortality rates. The findings revealed that individuals incarcerated at the time of the survey faced a 39% higher risk of all-cause mortality and more than triple the risk of overdose mortality compared to those not incarcerated. Additionally, higher county-level incarceration rates were associated with increased all-cause mortality risks, even among non-incarcerated residents.
These results underscore the significant health risks associated with incarceration, highlighting the need for comprehensive criminal justice and public health reforms.
If you’ve been incarcerated or have a loved one who currently is, you know firsthand how inadequate health care in prison can be. With tougher penalties and longer sentences for people labeled as sex offenders, more individuals are spending extended time behind bars, contributing to the overall higher mortality rates seen in this population.
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Here’s a little inside info about prison food. What the inmates don’t eat gets sold to pig farmers for slop (usually). This helps reflect a more efficient and well managed budget when it’s Federal Audit time for the facility (once a year).
Whether it lacks any nutrition, has bugs literally flying on it or barely edible due to dirt and debris. It changes nothing. The culinary standard is set by the inspector of the manufacturer (whomever holds the contract which is usually the same contract for public school food as well). It passes its low bar inspection and then gets shipped out.
The warden himself can’t do a thing about the quality of the food. Interestingly it benefits him if you don’t eat it.
bon appetit lol
Where is was, inmates were using the chicken for sexual gratification and they weren’t S.O either. Plus maggots in the food, extremely sandy veggies,spoiled or rotten food. Told officers and the head man in charge and his response was eat or dont eat, its extra protein. They dont care as they get to always get catered food,cookouts,pizzas or the special officers meals.gotta love the department of corruption.
The two things I can attest to from being in prison, that affects the life span of someone who has been incarcerated is, lack of proper health care and the low quality of the food and food contamination. An example, the place I was at grew their own vegetables and the potatoes were hardly ever washed and had tons of sand on them when you ate them.
I guess a third issue is depression but that is to be expected regardless of what you were incarcerated for, being away from family and having to watch your back every day from both inmates and the guards.
Apparently this information, and the possibility of being on the registry, doesn’t deter anyone from committing a sex crime with a child.
The registry neither deters nor protects. It’s a waste of resources when we could be putting those resources into good use in prevention and education strategies. We will never be able to prevent every bad thing from happening but we can certainly lower the numbers. What we are doing now is just wheel spinning and political grand standing.
Also, it should be noted that a prison sentence is rarely ever a deterrent, case in point is the death penalty, if that isn’t a deterrent than no sentence can be.