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San Francisco, CA 94901

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Stacy's Voice

P.O. Box 426004

San Francisco, CA 94142

 

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admin@stacysvoice.com

We are a voice of advocacy for all inmates in the correctional system and to help facilitate and ensure the prompt and timely service of healthcare needs to those incarcerated.

ABOUT US

© 2017 Stacy's Voice. 

The prison population of the United States has quadrupled in the past 25 years, and the country now incarcerates more people per capita than any other nation. Worldwide, imprisonment per 100 000 ranges from 30 in India to 75 in Norway, 119 in China, 148 in the United Kingdom, 628 in Russia, and 750 in the United States.

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Currently, nearly 2.3 million US inmates (about 1% of US adults) must rely on their jailers for health care.2 Although prisoners have a constitutional right to health care through the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of “cruel and unusual” punishment,3 periodic scandals, as well as previous studies, indicate that prisoners' access to health care and the quality of that care are often deficient.4,5 Indeed, citing deplorable conditions in California's prison system, a federal judge recently removed prison health care from the state's control.6 However, there is little nationally representative data on the health and health care of America's prisoners.

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Inmates have high rates of chronic medical conditions, especially viral infections. In addition, substance abuse and mental illness are common among inmates.7,8 We are not aware of any study analyzing the prevalence of common chronic conditions or of access to medical and psychiatric care among the incarcerated population as a whole. Therefore, we sought to determine the prevalence of select chronic diseases, access to health services, and pre- and postincarceration psychiatric treatment among the US inmate population.

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