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
March 22, 2018: Living with guns rather than dying with guns
March 8, 2018: India's epidemiological transition
Feb. 22, 2018: Discrimination in America
Feb. 15, 2018: Clearing up the confusion over fat (Update)
Feb. 08, 2018: A public health approach to an aging world
Feb. 1, 2018: The Surgeon General's opioid strategy
Jan. 25, 2018: Big data and public health
Jan. 18, 2018: Changing the food environment
Jan. 11, 2018: Fundamental questions
Dec. 14, 2017: Public health and behavioral economics
Dec. 7, 2017: Nuts and heart health
November 30, 2017: The importance of tracking eating disorders
November 20, 2017: A sustainable Thanksgiving [rebroadcast]
November 15, 2017: The science of Thanksgiving [rebroadcast]
November 9, 2017: A cellular message in a bottle
November 2, 2017: An opioid emergency
October 26, 2017: A new era of epidemics
October 19, 2017: An attempt to destabilize Obamacare
October 12, 2017: Eat, drink, and be healthy
October 5, 2017: Guns and public health
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