The health impact of incarceration
“Doc, I’m tired.”
This is a refrain that we hear from many of our patients who have been incarcerated in California’s prisons for decades. Now past the midway points of their lives, our patients describe how the absence of autonomy — what they eat, how they dress, how frequently they bathe, how they spend their day, and when they communicate with their families — has taken its toll, making them weary …
