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Healing the Prison Crisis

By Jonathan Simor

Transitions Clinic in San Francisco, an outpatient clinic serving the health needs of Californians on parole and probation, is a great example of one of my mantras, the solution to our penal crisis, won't come from anything penal. Enlightened penal policies, and the best kinds of criminological research that have traditionally shaped them, will follow, not lead the healing of the prison crisis. The clinic, spotlighted in an excellent article by April Dembosky in the Bay Area edition of the NYTimes, has focused like a beam on one of the deepest flaws in our penal state. The people we incarcerate, may or may not be the most dangerous people in the state, but they are clearly among the very sickest in the state. Years of chronic drug abuse, erratic medical care (both in and out of prisons), have left many prisoners decades older than their calendar age...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).