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Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants
Pages 49-52

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... jails and prisons experience symptoms of drug dependence or abuse, severe mental illness, HIV infection, diabetes mellitus, and other chronic medical conditions at far higher rates than the general population. This is a problem not just for them but for the communities from which they come and to which, in nearly all cases, they will return.
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... 5. What promising innovative outreach and engagement models exist such as successfully employing prisoners or former prisoners in peer health education and/or in caretaker programs directed toward elderly/disabled prisoners and those with substance abuse histories?
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... APPENDIX A 51 Scott Allen, University of California, Riverside Redonna Chandler, National Institute on Drug Abuse Jennifer Clarke, M.D., Brown University Medical Center Jamie Fellner, Human Rights Watch Robert Greifinger, M.D., John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Newton Kendig, M.D., Federal Bureau of Prisons Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project Fred Osher, M.D., Council of State Governments Steven Rosenberg, Community Oriented Correctional Health Services Faye Taxman, George Mason University Emily Wang, M.D., Yale University Chris Wildeman, Yale University Brie Williams, M.D., University of California, San Francisco The workshop will be in a roundtable format. Brief presentations will be followed by questions and discussion organized to address the questions posed above.
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... Public Health Impacts Discussants: Robert Greifinger, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Steven Rosenberg, Community Oriented Correctional Health Services Christopher Wildeman, Yale University 3:15 p.m. Opportunities and Models for Improving Health and Reducing Health Risks -- Innovative Care Models and Evidence of Effects Discussants: Redonna Chandler, National Institute on Drug Abuse Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project Faye Taxman, George Mason University 4:00 p.m.


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