Board #6 - Examining the relationship between prison overcrowding, policy reforms, and health outcomes.

• In Event: 71-304 - Poster Session: Politics and the Carceral State

Brief Overview

This is a quantitative analysis of state-level data that focuses on HIV, TB, and hepatitis C rates in prisons and the general population aiming to evaluate to what extent policy reforms play a role in mitigating negative health outcomes.

Author

• Evan Buckingham, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse