The Dose–Response of Time Served in Prison on Mortality: New York State, 1989–2003

Patterson, Evelyn J.

doi:10.2105/ajph.2012.301148

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“…Patients in the correctional setting experience higher rates of chronic medical illnesses, major psychiatric illness, and substance use disorders than their peers [4,5]. Incarceration itself carries substantial risks to health, including a substantially reduced life expectancy [6]. As in this case, chronic pain is a common complaint managed by correctional health clinicians [7].…”

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How Should a Health Care Professional Respond to an Incarcerated Patient's Request for a Particular Treatment?

Peteet

Tobey

2017

AMA Journal of Ethics

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Incarceration complicates the ethical provision of clinical care through reduction in access to treatment modalities and institutional cultures that value order over autonomy. Correctional care clinicians should expand their guiding principles to consider autonomy and health justice for their patients, which in turn should prompt development of processes and care plans that are patient-centered and account for the inherent restrictions of the setting. CaseDr. François is the medical director of a prison where more than 200 women are incarcerated. Over the past week, several nurses have contacted her both in person and through the prison's electronic health record to report that Jane, a woman with insulindependent type II diabetes who is incarcerated at the facility, has refused her insulin injections during the past week. Blood sugar measurements taken three times each day have been in the 300 to 500 range. Several of the nurses with whom Dr. François talks face-to-face report they feel anxious about the persistence of Jane's refusal. Dr. François reads Jane's electronic health record and sees that she experienced a motor vehicle accident five years ago, which resulted in a two-week hospitalization. Jane has chronic neck and back pain as a result of the accident and reported that she was prescribed gabapentin by a primary care clinician in the community to control her pain. Clinicians at the prison are discouraged from prescribing gabapentin unless other pain control options have been tried due not only to this drug's risk for cultivating dependence, but also to the diversion risk within the prison [1]. As a result, Jane has not been prescribed gabapentin at the prison and instead has a prescription for ibuprofen.Dr. François requests to speak with Jane to try to better understand her situation. When Jane arrives at the prison's medical ward, she tells Dr. François that her pain is unbearable and, specifically, that it keeps her from sleeping or moving comfortably. She states, "I need my gabapentin, this is torture!" When Dr. François asks her about her adherence to her insulin regimen, Jane tells her, "The only thing you people care about is whether I take my insulin. Why doesn't anyone care about my pain?" Dr. François tries to

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How Should a Health Care Professional Respond to an Incarcerated Patient's Request for a Particular Treatment?

Peteet

Tobey

2017

AMA Journal of Ethics

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“…44 Time away from the community may exacerbate these problems, 45 but the extent to which release from prison is causally associated with elevated mortality remains unclear. Record linkage studies such as the one described here are ill-suited to examining questions of causality, although one recent study in New York found a dose-response relationship between time in prison and mortality, 46 suggesting that the possibility of a causal association deserves closer examination.…”

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Risk of death for young ex‐prisoners in the year following release from adult prison

Dooren

Kinner

Forsyth

2013

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Background: In the community, all-cause mortality rates among those younger than 25 years are considerably lower than those of older adults and are largely attributable to risk-taking behaviours. However, given the unique health profiles of prisoners, this pattern may not be replicated among those leaving prison. We compared rates and patterns of mortality among young and older ex-prisoners in Queensland, Australia. Methods

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“…Just as inmates are at higher risk of mortality than the general population, so too are former inmates. Indeed, one study suggests that for every year spent in prison, overall life expectancy decreases by two years (Patterson, 2013).…”

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Caring for Those in Custody: Identifying High-Priority Needs to Reduce Mortality in Correctional Facilities

Russo¹,

Woods²,

Shaffer³

2017

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The Dose–Response of Time Served in Prison on Mortality: New York State, 1989–2003

Abstract: Incarceration reduces life span. Future research should investigate the pathways to this higher mortality and the possibilities of recovery.

Cited by 172 publications

References 38 publications

How Should a Health Care Professional Respond to an Incarcerated Patient's Request for a Particular Treatment?

How Should a Health Care Professional Respond to an Incarcerated Patient's Request for a Particular Treatment?

Risk of death for young ex‐prisoners in the year following release from adult prison

Caring for Those in Custody: Identifying High-Priority Needs to Reduce Mortality in Correctional Facilities

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