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4 Women's Health in Jails and Prisons
Pages 21-28

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... , spoke about MCC's programming inside Riverside Correctional Facility, which is Philadelphia's county jail for women. Charmaine Smith Wright, who specializes in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Delaware, discussed some of the special health care needs of women who have been incarcerated.
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... This brain development has a critical influence on future behavior, including the development of executive functioning leading to impulse control. Wright made the same point, noting that even events occurring in utero can affect health for a person's entire life.
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... 23 SOURCES: Presented by Charmaine Smith Wright, June 6, 2018, from O'Moore and Peden, 2018.
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... It provides a number of evidence-based s ­ervices, including center- and home-based programs like Early Head Start and Healthy Families America; MCC also employs a community health worker to make home visits. MCC uses relatively simple interventions such as baby carriers and pedometers, as well as motivational health texting, where women receive texts every day with tips and encouragement.
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From page 25...
... "Identity gets wrapped up in food in prisons, and it's hard to disentangle." MCC has worked to provide women with low-calorie and healthy meals snacks. For example, the Fit Beginnings program has identified red light, green light, and yellow light food choice options on commissary menus, which are filled with unhealthy options.
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... KEEPING MOTHERS OUT OF JAIL AND REDUCING THE NUMBER OF WOMEN WHO ARE INCARCERATED Mogul concluded her presentation by pointing out that models exist across the country, such as house arrest or rehabilitative programs that focus on keeping pregnant women and mothers out of jail. "These aren't women who need to be punished," she said.
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... The incarceration of women has also been part of the war on drugs and criminalization of poverty. Mogul pointed out, for example, that some states have considered legislation that would criminalize women who are pregnant and using drugs, or legislation that would ban lifetime benefits for anyone convicted of a crime.
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... Wright added that the spread of the opioid epidemic is changing the conversation. As more people become victims of opioid addiction, opportunities arise to discuss the policies of mass incarceration that are fundamentally misguided and harmful.
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