Incarceration and mortality in the United States

• Main Authors: Elias Nosrati (Author), Jacob Kang-Brown (Author), Michael Ash (Author), Martin McKee (Author), Michael Marmot (Author), Lawrence P. King (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the role of America's overcrowded prisons as vectors of ill health, but robust analyses of the degree to which high rates of incarceration impact population-level health outcomes remain scarce. In this paper, we use county-level panel data from 2927...