Pregnant Women in Prison and Jail Don’t Count: Data Gaps on Maternal Health and Incarceration

Bronson, Jennifer; Sufrin, Carolyn

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“…However, prior evidence focusing on the association between abortion reporting and response propensities in the NSFG is conflicting and incomplete (Peytchev 2012;Peytchev et al 2010). Additionally, we know little about abortion prevalence among women residing outside the households in the survey sampling frames, such as women who are homeless, incarcerated, or living in military quarters, although access to abortion is severely limited for these groups (Bronson and Sufrin 2019;Cronley et al 2018;Grindlay et al 2011).…”

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Abortion Reporting in the United States: An Assessment of Three National Fertility Surveys

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Despite its frequency, abortion remains a highly sensitive, stigmatized, and difficult-tomeasure behavior. We present estimates of abortion underreporting for three of the most commonly used national fertility surveys in the United States: the National Survey of Family Growth, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Numbers of abortions reported in each survey were compared with external abortion counts obtained from a census of all U.S. abortion providers, with adjustments for comparable respondent ages and periods of each data source. We examined the influence of survey design factors, including survey mode, sampling frame, and length of recall, on abortion underreporting. We used Monte Carlo simulations to estimate potential measurement biases in relationships between abortion and other variables. Underreporting of abortion in the United States compromises the ability to study abortionand, consequently, almost any pregnancy-related experience-using national fertility surveys.

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Abortion Reporting in the United States: An Assessment of Three National Fertility Surveys

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“…Unlawful sterilization in California prisons as recently as 2010 runs counter to necessary noncoercive, patientcentered, reversible contraceptive methods access (Hayes et al, 2020;Sufrin et al, 2009a). Although incarcerated women retain their legal right to abortion, many facilities disallow access (Bronson & Sufrin, 2019;Hayes et al, 2020;Sufrin, Creinin, & Chang, 2009b).…”

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“…Nearly 4,000 admissions of pregnant people to prisons and 55,000 to jails occur annually (Bronson & Sufrin, 2019;Sufrin et al, 2020a). Until 2019, there was limited systematic data reporting on incarcerated pregnant people and related outcomes, including births, miscarriages, and abortions.…”

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Improving Health Equity for Women Involved in the Criminal Legal System

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Women's Health Issues

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More than 1,000,000 women in the United States are currently under supervision of the criminal legal system (CLS), with the majority on probation or parole. 1 Since 1980, the number of women in prison has increased by more than 800%, which is twice the rate of growth for men, whose rates are falling (Bronson & Carson, 2019). Similarly, the male jail population decreased by 9% from 2008 to 2018, whereas the female jail population experienced a 15% increase (Zeng, 2020). Women involved in the CLS (WICLS) have high rates of mental and physical health conditions, socioeconomic challenges, and trauma and violence histories (Meyer et al., 2014; McDaniels

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“…First, two-thirds of incarcerated women are mothers to minor children (Glaze & Maruschak, 2008), and this may have unique implications for their health needs. Furthermore, although nearly three-quarters of incarcerated women are aged 18-44, the prime childbearing years (Glaze & Maruschak, 2008), the results of a recent systematic review suggest that mental health among pregnant prisoners is a major concern that has not been adequately addressed (Bronson & Sufrin, 2019).…”

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“…Issues related to the health care of women in prisons have been largely overlooked in the research. In general, criminology literature has ignored the health effects of living in correctional facilities and the failure of services to meet the needs of justice-involved women (Bronson & Sufrin, 2019 ; Mignon, 2016 ). Nevertheless, scholars have shown that incarceration may exacerbate women’s health by adding more stress to their lives (Aday, Dye, & Kaiser, 2014 ), and limiting access to quality medical and dental care (Douglas, Plugge, & Fitzpatrick, 2009 ), leading to a call for greater consideration of gendered health factors.…”

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Exploring the promise of intersectionality for promoting justice-involved women’s health research and policy

Gueta

2020

Health Justice

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The perspective of intersectionality has gained widespread scholarly interest and been employed across many different disciplines, including criminology. This perspective focuses on interlocking systems of oppression and the need to work toward structural changes to promote social justice and equity. The present article aimed to explore the potential of intersectionality for advancing health research and policy regarding justice-involved women, in different phases of the judicial process, based on the extant literature. First, employing an intersectional approach to analyze the issue of health during the pre-incarceration period may facilitate identification of the structural and representational factors underlying the barriers that women face in obtaining health services, which elevates the risk to their health. Furthermore, adopting an intersectionality perspective to explore women's health during incarceration may shed light on vulnerable, invisible subpopulations of women such as incarcerated older women and their health problems, and help identify the structural barriers to carceral health services and the role of stigma in inflicting and normalizing harmful practices within prison walls. In addition, an intersectionality lens highlights the risk of unintended use of scholarly knowledge regarding the health of justice-involved women. Last, an intersectionality perspective is particularly relevant for research of the reentry of justice-involved women. In particular, it can be used to examine gender-sensitive reentry services that ignore other axes of marginalization, such as class and race, generating a powerful dynamic that results in partial service, denial of access to therapeutic resources, and possible exposure to health-damaging environments. Through an exploration of the extant literature on justice-involved women, I endeavored to demonstrate that an intersectional framework offers powerful tools to both challenge and strengthen gender frameworks within criminology. This will make it possible to move beyond consideration of gender alone, to understand how systems of oppression based on race, age and other social locations intersect and combine to construct health disadvantages among justice-involved women. This highlights the needs for a new research agenda and policy that integrate the intersectional framework with health theories to provide a more developed understanding of health among justice-involved women.

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Pregnant Women in Prison and Jail Don’t Count: Data Gaps on Maternal Health and Incarceration

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Abortion Reporting in the United States: An Assessment of Three National Fertility Surveys

Abortion Reporting in the United States: An Assessment of Three National Fertility Surveys

Improving Health Equity for Women Involved in the Criminal Legal System

Exploring the promise of intersectionality for promoting justice-involved women’s health research and policy

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