Health in US Prisons and Jails

<p>Health Affairs' Marianne Amoss and Chris Fleming discuss recent data on mortality in prisons and health care in carceral settings, especially in connection with COVID-19.</p><p><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/he20230131.899433/full/?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=virtual+happy+hour">Join us February 28 for a Virtual Happy Hour</a>!</p><p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p><ul> <li> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/developing-national-social-care-standards?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=forefront">Developing Nation Social Care Standards</a> (<em>Health Affairs Forefront</em>)</li> <li><a href="https://uclacovidbehindbars.org/intro-carceral-mortality">UCLA Law Releases New Database to Monitor Deaths in US Prisons with Funding from Arnold Ventures</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00390?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=journal">Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in COVID-19 Mortality Within Carceral Settings: An Analysis of Texas Prisons</a> (<em>Health Affairs</em>)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/prison-hospital-data-omitted-federal-data-sets?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=forefront">Prison Hospital Data Is Omitted From Federal Data Sets</a> (<em>Health Affairs Forefront</em>)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hp20220512.118872/full/?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=a+health+podyssey">Podcast: Rachael Bedard Explains Health Care in Jails</a> (<em>A Health Podyssey</em>)</li> </ul><p>C<em>urrently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. </em><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/subscribe/individual?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=individual+subscriptions"><em>With your support,</em></a> <em>we can continue to keep our digital publi