Jeff Mellow

TL;DR: A meeting of 29 national experts in correctional health care, academic medicine, nursing, and civil rights to identify knowledge gaps and to propose a policy agenda to improve the care of older prisoners.

TL;DR: This article found that there were significant costs, both social and economic, to a prisoner's family if they desired to maintain the most basic level of connection with him, and that families and prisoners were put in a position requiring constant negotiation of competing interests.

TL;DR: Findings highlight the need for future investigations of specific social, behavioral, and other factors that underlie higher rates of parole revocation among individuals with co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use disorders.

TL;DR: An evaluation of a jail-based reentry program in New York City that begins while individuals are incarcerated and includes 90 days of postrelease services finds that participants perform no better than nonparticipants over a 1-year follow-up, but those who stay engaged for at least 90 days in jail experience significantly fewer returns to jail.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined supermax confinement in the United States and found that different counting procedures made it difficult to compare the number of supermax institutions and inmates across states.