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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September 14, 2017: Brand marketing gone bad
September 7, 2017: Disaster recovery
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August 3, 2017: Balancing economic growth and environmental protection
July 27, 2017: The surprising factor behind a spike in C-sections
July 21, 2017: Changing the language of addiction [Rebroadcast]
July 11, 2017: Choose unsaturated fats for heart health
June 29, 2017: A call for stricter air pollution standards
June 22, 2017: Health and safety in the dry cleaning industry
June 15, 2017: A new discovery in the fight against tuberculosis
June 8, 2017: Revisiting Zika
June 1, 2017: The Minnesota measles outbreak
May 25, 2017: The power of biology
May 18, 2017: Addressing key questions about HIV
May 11, 2017: Climate change as an opportunity for innovation
May 4, 2017: An invisible evil
April 27, 2017: An emergency within an emergency
April 20, 2017: Harnessing data to improve health
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