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Participants’ Submitted Questions and Topics
- Questions
- How do racial biases affect how women of color who are survivors of sexual or domestic violence are treated in the criminal justice system, and what reforms are needed to address these disparities?
- What are best practices for holding private prison health providers accountable and improve the quality of care provided?
- Are there carrots/sticks for improving carceral health that should be attached to 1115 waivers when states receive Medicaid dollars for pre-release care?
- How can improved health data collection from carceral facilities translate into improved health outcomes?
- What should CDC (or HHS broadly) do to ramp up its work on carceral health?
- With mental health and OUD in high rates amongst this population, how can we better help?
- How can we collectively work to combine efforts against domestic carceral practices, detention practices and larger health justice movements to achieve actual change?
- Topics
- Urgent guidance to CMS and states to overcome implementation challenges with 1115 waivers; how to implement changes in jail settings using experimental designs; how to overcome data challenges in evaluating 1115 waivers; recommendations on federal infrastructure needed to support Medicaid in jails and prisons
- Think critically about whether sustaining a separate inevitably substandard healthcare system for prisons and jails is itself antithetical to the goal of health equity.
- How the involvement of health care professionals in the community can improve the quality of health care for incarcerated and detained people.
- Minimizing the damaging effects of incarceration, especially for psychologically vulnerable populations.
- Using a health lens to support decarceration
- Disentangling care from the carceral system