Yes - Correctional health = Public health thanks @chesaboudin
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Replying to @briewsf @chesaboudin
I'm struggling to understand the connection, please explain what you mean
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Ex.:“The problem doesn’t affect just prisoners; it’s a public health concern as well. In recent years...in HIV has been “treatment as prevention”-people whose HIV is well-controlled are substantially less likely to infect others.” Marshall Project in Kaiser Health News 2016
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No offense, but that last statement makes no sense. By releasing prisoners, who are in de facto quarantine in prison, into the general public, doesn't that increase risk of exposure to them? What about the risk to safety of the general public these inmates pose?
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Replying to @StephenMPinto @6dm4 and
I have a hard time believing that it's impossible to achieve recommended social distancing in our prison, especially when our prisons have adequate space. I don't buy the fact that reasonable mitigation measures can't be taken. I'm just not convinced yet. Perhaps I'm wrong?
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That’s the issue. “Adequate spacing” is the issue - overcrowding is the norm in the penal system. There has been MANY articles and docs on this issue. The resources of prevention are out-of-system not in-system, that is until needed changes are instituted in the system.
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However, we don't have the degree of overcrowding in prisons here in SF that we do in other localities or even statewide or nationally
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Replying to @StephenMPinto @6dm4 and
We imprison in greater percentage, and with greater population than any other society the history of man. We imprison more than the soviet gulags at their peak, and more than the nazi camps at theirs. This modern criminal overcrowding is the focus of (Brown V Plata)
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There's an important distinction. In USSR, people were imprisoned, even killed, for exercising their basic human rights. Same as China. In US, all prisoners have been through the courts in front of judge and jury in a reasonably fair trial. You can't say that for USSR or China.
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Replying to @StephenMPinto @netfire4 and
Furthermore, in Singapore for example, the penalties are much more severe for crime. Hundreds have been executed for drug trafficking in the 1990s-2000s. If we had Singaporean law here, every drug dealer in the Tenderloin would be executed, and you'd probably have no more dealers
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At least the law in singapore is enforced consistently. They have a police state too, but we brutalize and incarcerate more people, and for less serious offences.pic.twitter.com/xOBL8NADb0
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