December 2002

The fourth meeting of the Reentry Roundtable examined the health needs and risks of returning prisoners and their families and highlighted the critical opportunity to improve public safety and public health outcomes. This Roundtable focused not only on the health needs of returning prisoners but also on the problems they pose to their communities and the health care system. The two-day meeting provided an opportunity for participants to explore the places where the corrections, reentry, and health perspectives intersect.

Meeting summary

The Public Health Dimensions of Prisoner Reentry: Addressing the Health Needs and Risks of Returning Prisoners and their Families

Commissioned papers for the Roundtable
All commissioned papers were published in the fall 2003 issue of the Journal of Correctional Health Care.

Health Profile of the Prison Population (Lois Davis)

Prison Health Care Services (B. Jaye Anno)

Community Health Care Services (Nicholas Freudenberg)

Role of Families and Social Networks in Improving Health Outcomes (Nancy Wolff)

Linkages Between Prison and Community Health Services (Ted Hammett)

Barriers to Health Services from a Race and Gender Perspective (Ray Patterson and Robert Greifinger)

Review of Evaluation Literature on Health Outcomes (Embry Howell and Robert Greifinger)

This Roundtable was funded by the California Endowment, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Centers for Disease Control.