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Health Care Half Hour: Successful reentry – Health issues facing people leaving incarceration

by Editor and Elizabeth Thompson November 18, 2021November 18, 2021

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State Health Policy

Funds for opioid treatment in jails and after release; prison facility improvement in budget

by Elizabeth Thompson November 17, 2021November 16, 2021

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State Health Policy

COVID funds beef up health care spending in proposed state budget, which still lacks Medicaid expansion

by Anne Blythe, Rose Hoban, Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, Elizabeth Thompson and Thomas Goldsmith November 17, 2021November 19, 2021

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Infectious Disease

Q & A about booster shots with a Duke infectious disease expert

by Elizabeth Thompson November 11, 2021November 10, 2021

A man in a blue hat and suit is holder a yellow folder while talking to a man with a stethoscope and a man in a red shirt. They are in what appears to be a doctor's office.

Evidence-based reentry resources key for sicker incarcerated population, researchers say

by Elizabeth Thompson November 8, 2021November 9, 2021

We see a hand holding a cardboard sign that says, "#Free Them All" sticking out the passenger window of a compact white car passing the Durham County Detention Facility. The car is part of a caravan of protestors calling for the release of inmates who are unable to pay bail during the pandemic. It's Father's Day, 2020.

COVID outbreaks continue in NC jails, which are exempt from state vaccine mandate

by Elizabeth Thompson October 25, 2021October 24, 2021