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Category: Prison Health

People seated in a row of chairs with folders in their hands participating in a reentry simulation
Posted inPrison Health

Reentry simulation helps participants understand challenges facing people newly released from prison and jail

by Rachel Crumpler March 24, 2023March 23, 2023

By Rachel Crumpler For an hour last week, I was a high school dropout who served four years in prison for internet fraud.  I was released from prison with $50 in cash, two things I could pawn and five transportation tickets. I had no forms of identification and no job. I would stay with my […]

A Black man in a blue shirt smiles while holding his hands together
Posted inPrison Health

NC podcaster highlights prison-to-community success stories

by Rachel Crumpler March 9, 2023March 8, 2023
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.
Posted inMedicaid

Uninsured former inmates suffer financial, health, societal consequences from lack of accessible care. Medicaid expansion could help.

by Rachel Crumpler February 24, 2023February 23, 2023
A series of closed tan doors in a jail housing unit
Posted inPrison Health

Poorly resourced, insufficient oversight system allows violations, dangerous conditions in NC jails

by Rachel Crumpler January 13, 2023January 12, 2023
A handful of volunteers work in a library in a donated space. Books adorn shelves on the wall. There is a table in the middle of the room for people to assemble packages on.
Posted inPrison Health

Volunteer-led group sends books to incarcerated women statewide

by Rachel Crumpler December 23, 2022December 22, 2022
Over a dozen men in yellow jumpsuits seated at a graduation ceremony inside the behavioral health unit
Posted inPrison Health

In-jail mental health treatment producing a ‘night and day’ difference for some in Forsyth County

by Rachel Crumpler November 29, 2022November 28, 2022

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