Friday, November 4, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Incarceration & Disability
In their article featured in the October issue, Laurin Bixby and colleagues analyze data on the more than 1.2 million people incarcerated in the US to estimate disability prevalence in prisons.
The authors find that two-thirds of those in state or federal prisons have a disability. More than half report a nonpsychiatric disability, including more than 20 percent with a cognitive disability and more than 10 percent with blindness or low vision.
The findings indicate that
disabled incarcerated people were more likely to have previously resided in other institutions, such as juvenile detention facilities and psychiatric hospitals.
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