Healio (3/2, Michael) reports, “Increased incarceration rates in counties across the U.S. were linked to increased risk for mortality from infectious diseases, chronic lower respiratory disease, substance abuse, suicide and multiple other causes,” researchers concluded after conducting “a retrospective, longitudinal study using data on U.S. county-level incarceration from 1987 to 2017 from the Vera Institute of Justice, and data on cause-specific mortality in people aged younger than 75 years from 1988 to 2018 collected from the U.S. National Vital Statistics System.” The findings were published online Feb. 23 in The Lancet Public Health.
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— “Incarceration rates linked to elevated risk for premature death “Erin Michael, Healio, March 2, 2021