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Andrew A. Skolnick

JAMA. 1998;279:97-98.

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ACCORDING TO experts in correctional health care, providing prisoners with good medical care and follow-up services after they are released is a cost-effective way of reducing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the general community. Although providing convicts with health and social services may seem a bitter pill for many to swallow—considering the public's growing resentment toward incarcerated offenders—the experts believe they now have some data to support their position (see next article).

Speaking at the 21st National Conference on Correctional Health Care, in San Antonio, Tex, Thomas J. Conklin, MD, director of health services for the Hampden County Correctional Center, Ludlow, Mass, said that the nation's jails and prisons present a public health opportunity that too many are missing. "When the famous bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he answered, ‘Because that's where the money is,'" Conklin said. "Well, jails . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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