Erica Gerrity, Director and Founder of the Minnesota Prison Doula Project and Raelene Baker, a Certified Birth Doula and their Project Coordinator join Lorry to talk about the Minnesota Prison Doula Project, a prison‐based pregnancy, birth, and parenting program. They currently have 8 doulas in 3 facilities. Read more about their program on their blog. A doula is a trained…
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Lorry is joined by Mari Knight and Catherine Knox to discuss the latest correctional health care news items. New study examines health factors influence on ex-prisoners’ chances of returning to jail The first news item is a study out of Australia that links health factors to recidivism. In this exploratory study of prisoners from seven institutions in Queensland, those inmates…
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Many of us have been closely watching the unfolding events surrounding the NY Prison Break over the last month. Here is a timeline of events, concluding with the death of convicted killer Matt and the shooting and capture of convicted killer Sweat in upstate New York. Early in the story Joyce Mitchell, a prison worker who managed the tailor shop…
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