As with past pandemics of influenza, COVID-19 tore through US prisons and jails; however,
the COVID-19 pandemic, uniquely, has led to more health research on carceral systems …

Firearm violence is a major threat to global public health and safety. Several individual,
family, peer, community, and societal risk and protective factors determine or modify the risk …

Importance Extreme heat poses a distinct risk to the 2.1 million incarcerated people in the
United States, who have disparately high rates of behavioral health conditions. Suicide is a …

Importance Decades-old data indicate that people imprisoned in the US have poor access to
health care despite their constitutional right to care. Most prisons impose co-payments for at …

Background Carceral facilities are high-risk settings for COVID-19 transmission. Little is
known about the hidden burden of infection or practical barriers to infection control in these …

Using public housing developments as a strategic site, our research documents a distinct
pathway linking disadvantaged context to incarceration—the public-housing-to-prison …

Across a variety of measures of safety and rehabilitation, our current systems of parole and
probation are failing. Research shows that community supervision fails to reduce crime; …

With a foreword by Bruce Western Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR The
most comprehensive critique of probation and parole—and a provocative and compelling …

Inequities and inequalities are apparent to psychologists who work at the intersection of the
criminal legal system. The COVID-19 pandemic raised many concerns surrounding the …

Introduction: Despite widespread recognition of the health and social risks posed by
parental incarceration (PI) and homelessness, these challenges are rarely considered in …