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Physician–Public Defender Collaboration — A New Medical–Legal Partnership

Involvement in the criminal justice system is one of the most fundamental upstream determinants of health. Fortunately, a model for helping patients navigate legal issues

Lessons Learned

There is still a chasm between service providers, community-based non-profits, think tanks, researchers, philanthropies, social service agencies, etc. on how to reduce mass incarceration and

Recommendations for Prioritization and Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccine in Prisons and Jails

EXPERTS FROM SEVEN OF THE NATION’S TOP UNIVERSITIES ADVISE PRIORITIZING INCARCERATED Persons AND CORRECTIONAL STAFF ALIKE IN THE SAME EARLY PHASE DISTRIBUTION OF THE CORONAVIRUS

Reflections by Sarah Martino

The COVID 19 pandemic has upended the lives of many Americans who were already struggling to make ends meet. With unemployment and homelessness at record

Reflections By Heather Gaydos

I did not choose the family or conditions into which I was born and neither did anyone else.  Over the last two decades, this conviction

Best Practices for Implementing Decarceration as a Strategy to Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities

The Committee on Law and Justice will convene an ad hoc committee that will provide advice to policymakers, correctional officials, and public health officials on