This policy brief describes how re-entry has been associated with increased, illness, mortality, and risky health behaviors. The brief highlights the process of community re-entry presenting a crucial opportunity to link individuals with needed health and social services. This brief looks to HIV, a pandemic predating COVID-19, in order to draw broader lessons for addressing the needs of incarcerated populations in the United States during re-entry.
Oral presentation by Siddharth Raich, Center for Health Justice that discusses information retention barriers which include mental health challenges, literacy issues, language barriers that impact inmates and juveniles’ awareness and understanding of co-infections of HIV and STIs, unsafe sex while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and of anti-retroviral treatments.
Oral presentation by Shoshanna Scholar, Office of Diversion and Reentry that discusses the importance of determining need for overdose prevention and response training (OPR) for inmates in Los Angeles County Jails.
Oral presentation at the 2018 CHIPTS Next Generation Conference that discusses the development and testing of social work/legal case management application (“app”) HIV intervention to increase linkage to appropriate HIV, social work, and legal services among HIV-positive African American young MSM in Los Angeles County.
This survey assesses detention and jail history. This survey asks questions related to ever being taken to the police station, being arrested for a crime, and taken a plea bargain. Developers: Center for Community Health, Semel Institute-Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) of the University of California, Los Angeles.