Jails and Pretrial Detention: A Human Rights and Health Justice Problem
2023
This article from Think Global Health examines the use of pretrial detention in the United States and globally, detailing how the practice undermines human rights and poses significant risks to the health, safety, and well-being of those detained. Pretrial detention commonly involves people being detained by the state while awaiting trial or before receiving a sentence. In the U.S., one in three people incarcerated are detained in a jail, or more than 700,000 people on a given day. As of 2020, 30 percent of the global jail and prison population is comprised of people detained while awaiting trial. The article highlights how people in pretrial detention face inhumane conditions and violation of human rights, including lack of access or provision of adequate health care, along with jail-attributable injuries, illness, and deaths
Jails and Pretrial Detention: A Human Rights and Health Justice Problem
Source:
Golembeski C et al. Jails and Pretrial Detention: A Human Rights and Health Justice Problem. Think Global Health 2023. https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/jails-and-pretrial-detention-human-rights-and-health-justice-problem.