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Incarceration As Forced Migration: Effects on Selected Community Health Outcomes

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Incarceration As Forced Migration: Effects on Selected Community Health Outcomes Posted on: Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 03:00 CDT By Thomas, James C Torrone, Objectives. We estimated the effects of high incarceration rates on rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies. Methods. We calculated correlations between rates of incarceration in state prisons and county jails and rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies for each of the 100 counties in North Carolina during 1995 to 2002. We also estimated increases in negative health outcomes associated with increases in incarceration rates using negative binomial regression analyses. Results. Rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies, adjusted for age, race, and poverty distributions by county, consistently increased with increasing incarceration rates...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 02, 2008 (boomark / email).