Reproductive Justice, Health Disparities And Incarcerated Women in the United States

Sufrin, Carolyn; Kolbi-Molinas, Alexa; Roth, Rachel

doi:10.1363/47e3115

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“…At least eight states have no written policy on abortion, a situation that leaves important decisions in the hands of prison officials. Sufrin joins Roth and Kolbi-Molinas in 2015 to extend this discussion and describe how prison and jail officials who deny incarcerated women access to abortion punish women by forcing them to continue their pregnancies [21].…”

Section: Key Question 2: Can Incarcerated Women Access Contraceptive mentioning

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Contraception need and available services among incarcerated women in the United States: a systematic review

Peart

Knittel

2020

Contracept Reprod Med

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Context: Seventy-five percent of incarcerated women are of reproductive age, most of whom are at-risk for unintended pregnancy. Women who are incarcerated come disproportionately from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds and often lack access to desired reproductive health care. While the carceral system provides a unique opportunity to fill this gap, a better understanding of the contraceptive needs, desires, and plans of incarcerated women is needed to optimize health care provision within the carceral system. A review of current contraceptive services available to women inmates may both identify model care programs and shed light on areas for improvement. Evidence acquisition: PubMed electronic database used to identify relevant articles published between January 1975 and September 2019 using a systematic review method. Results: Twenty-five articles met the inclusion criteria and answered four key questions surrounding contraception in the carceral system. Most articles (48%) represented scientific research. Other publications identified by this review were expert commentaries, policy briefings, guidance and recommendations reports, and law and bioethics reviews. Conclusions: Incarcerated women desire access to standard and emergency contraception from carceral health care systems. Knowledgeable family planning practitioners providing patient-centered and trauma-informed care and public health interventions linking newly released inmates to community clinics can help alleviate inmates' concerns regarding initiating desired contraception while incarcerated.

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Section: Key Question 2: Can Incarcerated Women Access Contraceptive mentioning

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Contraception need and available services among incarcerated women in the United States: a systematic review

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Knittel

2020

Contracept Reprod Med

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“…Borders, prisons, occupation, and militarized zones all function as racialized reproductive technologies calling for decolonial and demilitarizing responses (Kanaaneh, 2002;Nahman, 2011;Sufrin et al, 2015;Vertommen, 2015). Capitalism and the way that childbirth continues to be commodified interacts with these migratory, military, and carceral patterns.…”

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Making and breaking families – reading queer reproductions, stratified reproduction and reproductive justice together

Smietana

Thompson

2018

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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“…Pervasive, severe trauma history has also been well‐documented in this population (Browne, Miller, & Maguin, ; Grella, Lovinger, & Warda, ). Despite continued growth of the female population in the criminal justice system and documentation of their unique needs, US correctional institutions have been unprepared to provide high‐quality, gender‐responsive health care to women in their custody (Ferszt & Clarke, ; Fisher & Hatton, ; Sufrin, Kolbi‐Molinas, & Roth, ), and an international call for evidence‐based support for the rights of women involved in the criminal justice system has been issued (United Nations Economic and Social Council, ).…”

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Women in Transition: Experiences of Health and Health Care for Recently Incarcerated Women Living in Community Corrections Facilities

Colbert

Goshin

Durand

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Research in Nursing & Health

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Health priorities of women after incarceration remain poorly understood, constraining development of interventions targeted at their health during that time. We explored the experience of health and health care after incarceration in a focused ethnography of 28 women who had been released from prison or jail within the past year and were living in community corrections facilities. The women's outlook on health was rooted in a newfound core optimism, but this was constrained by their pressing health-related issues; stress and uncertainty; and the pressures of the criminal justice system. These external forces threatened to cause collapse of women's core optimism. Findings support interventions that capitalize on women's optimism and address barriers specific to criminal justice contexts. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Reproductive Justice, Health Disparities And Incarcerated Women in the United States

Cited by 74 publications

References 31 publications

Contraception need and available services among incarcerated women in the United States: a systematic review

Contraception need and available services among incarcerated women in the United States: a systematic review

Making and breaking families – reading queer reproductions, stratified reproduction and reproductive justice together

Women in Transition: Experiences of Health and Health Care for Recently Incarcerated Women Living in Community Corrections Facilities

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