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    Hard time and health care: Challenges in caring for the prison population - 4 year(s) ago

    Healio Rheumatology | The environment is uninviting and uncaring. It’s loud, it’s cold and it’s dangerous. And it’s even worse for the inmates. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were nearly 2.2 million adults locked in prisons and jails across the United States as of 2016. If this group were its own U.S. state, it would rank 36th in population, just ahead of New Mexico.

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