Physicians call for new approach to address national 'epidemic of mass incarceration'

Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

With 2.3 million people behind bars and an estimated 10 million Americans cycling in and out of correctional facilities each year, the United States is in the midst of an "epidemic of mass incarceration," say researchers from the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, a collaboration of The Miriam Hospital and Brown University.

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