As COVID-19 swept through American prisons and jails in 2020, wardens scrambled to keep prisoners and corrections officers from getting sick. One strategy was to increase solitary confinement. Health experts warn that solitary confinement increases the risk of mental illness and suicide, but the practice continues. Today, about 2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S. In this episode of the Better Off podcast, we'll ask: Is it possible to build a corrections system that accounts for their health and safety?
Guests:
Jasmine D Graves, Ph.D. student, Population Health Sciences program, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Monik Jimenez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Credits:
Host/producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
The Better Off team: Kristen Dweck, Elizabeth Gunner, Pamela Reynoso, Stephanie Simon, and Ben Wallace
Audio engineering and sound design: Kevin O'Connell
Additional research: Kate Becker
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Can we end chronic homelessness?
What makes a meal healthy?
Is clean beauty for real?
Is cooking with natural gas unhealthy?
Introducing Better Off Season 2: Home
Update: We’re better off when we can breathe easy
We're better off when we unstick the stereotypes around eating disorders
We’re better off when we age with resilience
We're better off with Juneteenth
We're better off with health equity
We’re better off when we stop pandemics before they start
We’re better off when life-altering illnesses can be eradicated
We're better off with mRNA vaccines
We're better off when we swipe right on public health
We're better off when kids are resilient
We're better off when science leads the way
We're better off when we can breathe easy
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