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Health Promotion in Jails and Prisons: An Alternative Paradigm for Correctional Health Services

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For many years, the guiding principle for correctional health services was the legal mandate to provide care that met the constitutional obligation to avoid imposing cruel and unusual punishment on inmates by withholding medical care that met community standards. Recently, some correctional health professionals have articulated an alternate vision in which these programs take on a broader mission of promoting the health of inmates both during and after incarceration. Among the elements of this approach are information and education, robust prerelease and discharge planning, correctional facility and community-based medical care, improving correctional facility environments, meeting the basic needs of inmates, and advocacy for health-promoting policies and programs. This chapter spells out this alternate approach by summarizing recent reports and literature on health promotion in correctional settings, reviewing promising and best practices, and proposing several specific tasks that correctional systems, correctional health staff, and appropriate community partners can take on to translate this expanded vision into practice in jails and prisons.

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