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Featured committee: Justice-Impacted and Incarcerated Health

Dedicated to advancing the multiple public health areas intersecting with justice systems. Key topic areas: disparities, human rights, behavioral health, chronic care, transitional care, and special populations. The JIIH committee maintains a listserv of over 200 members and experts issuing periodic newsletters to announce Upcoming Events, Articles and Resources, and Notes from Members. For APHA Annual Meetings, JIIH distributes a list of Sections seeking Abstracts in Key Topic Areas and a user friendly Directory of JIIH Sessions of Interest by date, time and location. The listserv is also a useful networking tool, connecting those looking for experts in their regions or best practice guidelines.

Resources:

• AETC National Resource Center Health Disparities Collaborative Webinar: Addressing Health Disparities Among Incarcerated and Recently Incarcerated Populations webinar recording

• Community Oriented Correctional Health Services promotes health care connectivity between jails and the communities in which they reside and highlights recent developments impacting public health and public safety

• Medical Advocates Prisoners Page

• The Health Resources Services Administration’s Special Projects of National Significance publishes training manuals, curricula and webinars on key topic areas through its TARGET Center’s iHiP Integrating HIV Innovative Practices website
  • Integration of Buprenorphine into HIV Primary Care Settings
  • Engaging Hard-to-Reach Populations
  • Jail linkage programs
  • Oral health care
  • Integrating Hep C Treatment into HIV Care
  • Women of Color: Enhancing Access

• The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Collaborative for Change offers information, technical assistance and support services on mental health and juvenile justice topics.

• Reentry Central: The National Website on Reentry for news and information on the subject of reentry and related criminal justice issues.

News and Publications:

• A Minnesota proposal aims to create a recovery center or those living with mental illness who have been arrested, as a possible diversion from jail.

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Behind Bars

• How Racist is Solitary Confinement?

•  Health Outcomes for HIV-Infected Persons Released from the New York City Jail System with a Transitional Care Coordination Plan by Paul A. Teixeira et. al. assessing the 6-month outcomes of HIV patients who received a transitional care plan before release from jail.

• Consumer Rights Come to Jail: How the Affordable Care Act Changes the Rights of Individuals Pending Disposition, COCHS’ Daniel J. Mistak, describes how the ACA endows individuals pending disposition with new consumer rights — and the implications of those rights.

• Development of a Performance-Based RFP for Correctional Health Care Services in Vermont: COCHS’ Ben Watts shares a case study of how a state correctional health care system created a new performance-based contractual model in alignment with state and federal health reforms.

• ‘If They Hand You A Paper, You Sign It’: A Call to End the Sterilization of Women in Prison

• Reproductive Injustice: The State of Reproductive Health Care for Women in New York State Prisons

• Violations of the law against shackling during birth