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Bureau of Justice Study Statistics Show Depth of Prisoner Health Issues

by Derek Gilna

A special report issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in February, 2015 documents what prison rights advocates have known for years, that “half of state and federal prisons and local jail inmates have serious chronic health problems." The study concluded that prisoners are nearly twice ...

 

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