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Meditation Course Helps Native Americans Sustain Recovery

Marlatt evaluated the effect of "mindfulness-based relapse prevention" on people struggling with addiction.

Grantee profiles 07/23/2009 

New Insights on What Makes People Stop Using Drugs: Bringing Methadone and Buprenorphine Into Correctional Settings

In 2003, Mark Parrino, M.P.A., received an Innovators Combating Substance Abuse award from RWJF and got a chance to bring methadone and buprenorphine into correctional settings.

Grantee profiles 07/23/2009 

Cost Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Treatment in Criminal Justice Settings

The prevalence of drug use among criminal offenders and the positive rate of growth in the already large incarcerated population, strongly suggest a need to fund cost-effective substance abuse interventions in criminal justice settings.

Published In: Knowledge Assets Series

Issue and policy briefs 05/06/2009 

Helping Former Prisoners Reenter Society
(from To Improve Health and Health Care, Volume XII)

In this chapter of the Anthology, Will Bunch, a journalist with the Philadelphia Daily News, looks at Health Link, an early prisoner re-entry program that ran between 1992 and 2002 and was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program...

Published In: To Improve Health and Health Care

Book chapters, RWJF Anthology 01/20/2009 

Recommendations to Improve Access to Health Care for Prisoners Coming Home in Alameda and Los Angeles Counties

A coalition in Calif. works to improve access to health care for formerly incarcerated individuals.

Grant Results Reports 11/11/2008 

A New Family-Focused Database for Bodega de la Familia's Work with Prisoners Coming Home in New York

Staff at Family Justice designed and implemented a comprehensive database designed to support its Bodega de la Familia family case management approach to improving the health and well-being of formerly incarcerated individuals and their families in New York.

Grant Results Reports 10/31/2008 

Jails and Community-Based Health Care

This issue brief discusses COCHS, an alternative to the traditional system of correctional care.

Issue and policy briefs 09/22/2008 

Inside and Out: Protecting Prisoners and Communities

Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) connects the health care provided in local correctional centers with the care provided in the community.

Grantee stories video, Grantee profiles 04/03/2008 

Comparison of Health and Social Characteristics of People Leaving New York City Jails by Age, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity

This study explores the demographics of individuals released from jails in New York City, through a survey of 1,946 participants interviewed between 1997-2004. The U.S. jail population has increased by 257 percent since 1983. Jails differ from prisons in that...

Published In: Public Health Reports

Journal articles 01/03/2008 

National Commission Assesses Management of Chronic Health Conditions Among Prisoner Populations

Staff at the National Commission on Correctional Health Care measured the health outcomes of patients with chronic conditions in correctional institutions in Georgia and Michigan over time.

Grant Results Reports 02/10/2007 

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