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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2004;292:423-424.

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Chicago—Listen to health care professionals in the correctional field and they will remind you that prisoners are the only individuals in the United States with a legal right to health care. Consider that right in the context of an aging prison population, tight budgets, and growing numbers of incarcerated patients with chronic conditions and diseases affecting older individuals and it's clear that the system is on the verge of a health care crisis.

A nurse takes the temperature of a 78-year-old inmate at a correctional health facility in Florida. A growing population of older inmates with chronic medical conditions will strain US correctional health care delivery systems. (Photo credit: Office of Health Services/Florida Department of Corrections)

The problem is off the radar of most individuals in the United States. There is a perception that prisons hold younger individuals serving sentences that will have them back on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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