Health Effects of Carceral Conditions

Prior Incarceration and Dental Insurance Trajectories throughout Older Adulthood

Authors: Alexander Testa, Luis Mijares, Dylan Jackson, Vahed Maroufy, Rafael Samper-Ternent, Ana Neumann, Rahma Mungia, Kyle Ganson, Jason Nagata, Thomas Oates
JDR Clinical & Transitional Research, April 2026

The health burdens of segregation for older incarcerated adults

Authors: Meghan Novisky, Stephanie Prost
Journal of Criminal Justice, July-August 2025

County Incarceration Rate and Stroke Death: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Influence of Physical Environment, Health Care Access, and Community Mental Distress

Authors: Anders Larrabee Sonderlund, Emily Wang, Natasha Williams, Carol Horowitz, Antoinette Schoenthaler, Louisa Holaday
Journal of the American Heart Association, May 2025

Dental care trajectories among formerly incarcerated older adults in the United States

Authors: Alexander Testa, Luis Mijares, Mateus Renno Santo, Vahed Maroufy, Dylan Jackson, Rafael Samper-Ternent, Rahma Mungia, Ana Neumann
PLOS One, April 2025

Linkages between incarceration and health for older adults

Authors: Meghan Novisky, Stephanie Prost, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, Alexander Testa
Health & Justice, April 2025

Carceral Health Care

Authors: Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Justin Berk, Brie Williams
The New England Journal of Medicine, February 2025

Expanding Geroscience to Vulnerable Populations in Mid-Late Life: Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Service Users and Formerly Incarcerated Individuals

Authors: Richard H Fortinsky, Iman Al-Naggar, Lisa Barry, Ellis Dillon, George Kuchel, Julie Robison
The Journal of Gerontology Series A, February 2025

Know the Difference Between Jail and Prison? Both Are Associated With Risk of Death

Authors: Justin Berk, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein
American Journal of Public Health, September 2024

Links of Previous Incarceration With Geriatric Syndromes and Chronic Health Conditions Among Older Adults in the United States

Authors: Alexander Testa, Dylan Jackson, Meghan Novisky, Christopher Kaufmann, Carmen Gutierrez, Jack Tsai, Adam Spira, Roland Thorpe Jr.
The Journals of Gerontology, August 2024

Health equity for people living in correctional facilities: Addressing bias, stigma, and dehumanization

Authors: Louise Reagan, Erin Kitt-Lewis, Susan Loeb, Deborah Shelton, Donna Zucker
Research in Nursing Health, August 2024

"We're Not Patients. We're Inmates": Older Black Women's Experience of Aging, Health, and Illness During and After Incarceration

Authors: Jennifer James
The Gerontologist, April 2024

Characterizing Aging-Related Health in Older Women with a History of Incarceration: Multimorbidity, Polypharmacy, Mortality, Frailty, and Depression

Authors: Amanda Emerson,  Xinyang Li, Nick Zaller, Megha Ramaswamy
Journal of Aging and Health, February 2024

Health Conditions and Treatment Utilization Among Older Male Veterans Incarcerated in Prisons

Authors: Lance Washington, Jennifer Bronson, Christine Timko, Benjamin Han, Jessica Blue-Howells, Andrea Finlay
Journal of General Internal Medicine, January 2024

Forgotten and without Protections: Older Adults in Prison Settings

Authors: Jalayne Arias, Lillian Morgado, Stephanie Prost
The Hastings Center Report, November 2023

A Nation of Incarceration and Human Suffering: Implications for Research on Age and the Life Course

Authors: Raya Kheirbek 
The Journals of Gerontology, May 2023

Self-injury and the embodiment of solitary confinement among adult men in Louisiana prisons

Authors: David Cloud, Brie Williams, Regine Haardöerfer, Justin Hosbey, Hannah Cooper 
SSM - Population Health, Feburary 2023