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Baldwin KM, Jones J. 2000. Health issues specific to incarcerated women: Information for state maternal and child health programs. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, Women's and Children's Health Policy Center, 11 pp.

Annotation: This report examines health issues specific to incarcerated women. It describes characteristics of the women, standards for health services, and significant health care concerns. The report suggests areas for improvement in health care and potential roles for public health and maternal and child health. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Access to health care, Correctional institutions, Incarcerated women, Prisoners, Standards, State MCH programs, Women's health, Women's health services

Brecher EM, Della Penna RD. 1975. Health care in correctional institutions. Washington, DC: National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, 98 pp.

Annotation: This manual provides practical suggestions for improving the quality and efficiency of the health care available to inmates in correctional institutions. Part I (medical aspects) covers elements of sound correctional health care; supportive medical services; levels of care; health care services in women's, juvenile, and open (minimum security) institutions; health care services in local detention facilities (jails). Part II (organizing a correctional health care system) covers the need for statewide organization; recruiting, training, and retaining correctional health care personnel, assembling other resources; financing correctional health care; and contracting out. Part III covers interpersonal relationships in a correctional institution; dental care; environmental health considerations; and inmate health education.

Keywords: Correctional institutions, Health care systems, Incarcerated women, Incarcerated youth, Manuals

Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families. From risk to opportunity: Philanthropy's role in bringing children of the incarcerated "Into the circle". Insight: A Review of Current GCYF Topics and Issues. Winter 2009,

Annotation: This issue provides a synthesis of the information from three 2008 learning summits and documents the experiences of nine foundations that have varying levels of investment in work on children of the incarcerated. Topics include what foundations can do, uniting generations and program areas around children with incarcerated parents, a case study in Pittsburgh, a statewide program in Vermont, developing collaborations, and engaging incarcerated fathers of children in foster care.

Keywords: Children, Corrections, Incarcerated women
   

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