Overview: Contributors drawn from public health, correctional health, civil rights law, and sociology.Includes supplementary material: .Projecting correctional facility-based health care into the community arena, .Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities. examines the burden of illness in the growing prison population, and analyzes the considerable impact on public health as prisoners are released. More than forty practitioners, researchers, and scholars in correctional health, mental health, law, and public policy make a timely case for correctional health care that is humane fo
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