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| Other authors / contributors: | Humm-Delgado, Denise.
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| ISBN: | 9780742563469
0742563464
1282496352
9781282496354
9780742563001
0742563006
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The United States correctional system is facing an urgent crisis in how to meet the health care needs of its prisoners. As the number of inmates in correctional facilities increases, prisons struggle to adequately address health care needs in a financially feasible way. Many prisoners enter the system with medical problems that have gone unmet, and the toxic environments inside the prisons further compromise their health, causing serious problems both within the prisons themselves and in society as a whole when the prisoners are released. Health and Health Care in the Nation's Prisons presents.
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| Other form: | Print version: Delgado, Melvin. Health and health care in the nation's prisons. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008 9780742563001 0742563006
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