Criminal justice healthcare

As these justice movements build and strengthen partnerships with public health and civil rights advocates, we see the potential of using the health justice framework to reimagine the future of the criminal legal system.

In this paper, we will propose best practices in transitioning from correctional- to community-based health care and argue that achieving health equity for people with criminal justice involvement in the United States is not possible without ethical provision of health care.
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Advocates have, for instance, documented the serious harms of relying so heavily on the criminal legal system for mental illness crisis care.
Yet for many communities, the carceral system is the l argest provider of mental health care.

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