Get Connected: an HIV prevention case management program for men and women leaving California prisons.
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PCM appears to facilitate healthy behavior for individuals leaving prison, and those receiving comprehensive health services were significantly more likely to complete the program.Abstract:
Individuals leaving prison face challenges to establishing healthy lives in the community, including opportunities to engage in behavior that puts them at risk for HIV transmission. HIV prevention case management (PCM) can facilitate linkages to services, which in turn can help remove barriers to healthy behavior. As part of a federally funded demonstration project, the community-based organization Centerforce provided 5 months of PCM to individuals leaving 3 state prisons in California. Program effects were measured by assessing changes in risk behavior, access to services, reincarnation, and program completion. Although response rates preclude definitive conclusions, HIV risk behavior did decrease. Regardless of race, age, or gender, those receiving comprehensive health services were significantly more likely to complete the program. PCM appears to facilitate healthy behavior for individuals leaving prison.read more
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When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry
TL;DR: In this paper, a profile of returning prisoners is presented, along with a discussion of the changing nature of Parole Supervision and Services, and the role of the victim's role in prisoner reentry.
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Reducing Postrelease HIV Risk among Male Prison Inmates A Peer-Led Intervention
TL;DR: Men who received the intervention were significantly more likely to use a condom the first time they had sex after release from prison and also were less likely to have used drugs, injected drugs, or shared needles in the first 2 weeks after released from prison.
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HIV in Prisons and Jails, 1999
TL;DR: In 1999, 2.3% of State jail inmates, 0.9% of Federal prison inmates, and 1.7% of local jail inmates were known to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and at midyear 1999, when the last census was conducted, 8,615 local Jail inmates wereknown to be HIV positive.