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Transitions Clinic Network provides national healthcare resources for formerly incarcerated

October 30, 2021 by Vincent O'Bannon

“Health not incarceration” is one of the mottos of a group of medical advocates helping formerly incarcerated individuals with their health care and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: HEALTHCARE, TRANSITIONS Clinic Network Tagged With: health, Health Care, healthcare, Public Services, TCN

Death rate among prisoners on the rise

September 23, 2021 by Kevin Sawyer

Chart of the top seven causes of death in 2016, where 334 inmate died in CA. 325 men and nine women

Prisons are becoming more dangerous as the number of inmates dying in custody is on the rise, a recent report by the Prison Policy Initiative … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Health and Wellness, HEALTHCARE Tagged With: Health and Wellness, healthcare, PPI

SB 118 revises compassionate release

November 30, 2020 by Kenneth R. Brydon

Medical stethoscope with red paper heart on white surface

Gov. Gavin Newsome has signed a bill increasing the chance for elderly and ill prisoners to obtain a compassionate release. The measure, SB 118, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: cdcr, healthcare, SB 188

SQN EXTRA: MASS INC HEALTHCARE

February 10, 2020 by San Quentin News Contributor

By Alfred King, Journalism Guild Writer America’s current healthcare system makes things worse for many of those who are incarcerated in jails … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: healthcare, Human Interest

Professional healthcare workers showed up at San Quentin

October 23, 2019 by Aron Kumar Roy

Personal well-being was the theme of the day at San Quentin’s 16th Annual Health Fair. A diverse array of professionals from the healthcare … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Recently Posted Tagged With: Aron Kumar Roy, Health and Wellness, healthcare, SQ Health Fair

10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy arrested by ICE

March 7, 2019 by Timothy Hicks

After a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy left a Texas hospital for treatment in October 2017, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Health and Wellness, healthcare, Human Interest, Immigration

Colorado Department of Corrections to spend $41 million for hep-C treatment

December 29, 2018 by Amir Shabazz

Colorado has agreed to provide medical treatment to cure hepatitis C among 2,200 prisoners. The action came in the settlement of a lawsuit against the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Colorado, healthcare, Institutions

Detailed report about prison healthcare

May 7, 2018 by Juan Haines

On any single day, more than a million people are held in state prisons across the nation where substance abuse, mental illness, and contagious … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: healthcare, Pew, Prison Health Care, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Vera, Vera Institute of Justice

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