Monday, August 10 2026:

• Medication for opioid use disorder in jail settings: Barriers and facilitators to implementation, Paywall :( Katherine LeMasters, et al. April, 2026. "Interview participants identified a range of barriers to successful MOUD program implementation in the jail. These barriers focused on a lack of continuity of care and stigma toward individuals with opioid use disorder."
• "Everyone hears everyone's business": Health care provider perspectives on privacy and confidentiality in U.S. prisons and jails, Rebecca L. Walker. July, 2026. "Providers expressed concern about how undermining privacy and confidentiality in carceral settings may lead to harm or insufficient care for patients. They described how a lack of privacy degrades the quality of health information [shared]."
• A survey of state correctional health care providers on advance care planning: Opportunity for collaboration with Corrections, Paywall :( Susan O'Conner-Von, et al. January, 2024. "Most [respondents] reported their prison did not have a dedicated end-of-life care program and only 11% offered a peer-care program... two-thirds indicated their facility provided the opportunity to designate a health care agent."
• Mortality in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, Sanjay Basu, et al. April, 2026. "After a prolonged decline from early study years, mortality rates [per 100,000] increased to 75.6 in FY 2020, which included the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 13 in FY 2023, 31.8 in FY 2024, 47.5 in FY 2025, and 88.9 in partial FY 2026."
• Death by incarceration: Detention duration, overdose, and COVID-19 in Los Angeles County Jails, 2008-2023, Adrianne Katrina Nelson et al. June, 2026. "In the LA County Jail, we found that deaths occur well into the jail stay. From 2008 to 2023, the median duration from arrest to death was 57.5 days."
• The Trump Administration's $1.7 billion National Guard deployments fail to reduce urban crime, Center for American Progress. July, 2026. "[This] analysis indicates that the deployment of the National Guard had no measurable effect on violent crime trends."
• "Because I was a criminal and drug addict.": Experiences of anti-Black gendered racism and reproductive injustice among Black pregnant and postpartum women with a substance use disorder and incarceration and family policing histories, Denae L. Bradley, et al. July, 2025. "Participants described how intersecting systems of surveillance and control impeded their prenatal care, recovery, and abilities to parent their children in gender and racially specific ways."
• The juvenile justice resource desert: Quantifying rural-metro disparities and opportunities in Florida, R Street. July, 2026. "Florida rural counties arrested 40% more youth per capita than metro counties, placed 33% more youth on probation, admitted 126% more youth to residential facilities, and transferred 79% more youth to adult court."