Background: Increasing evidence points towards incarceration causing poor health, with one study estimating that every year in prison is associated with a two-year reduction in life expectancy (1). Cervical cancer is the most common cancer among incarcerated females (2,3). No study has yet examined whether this increased rate of cervical cancer diagnosis persists after release. […]

Background: The United States incarcerates more people than any other country (1) and there are gross inequities in who is incarcerated. Native Americans are more than twice as likely to be incarcerated as White Americans (2); Black Americans are incarcerated at a rates five times higher (3). People with lower incomes face higher incarceration rates, […]