NEW INVITED PERSPECTIVE: Uncovering Harmful Exposures in Carceral Environments. Read the article ➡️ ow.ly/VMNl50KPr3s UNC Research Emory Public Health Amend Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein

Our paper on incarcerated older adults during COVID-19 in California state prisons is out in Health Affairs healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl… w/ the fabulous team of @briewsf Stefano M Bertozzi David Sears Ilana G-G, MD 🧵 1/

UCSF Wins 4 Regional CASE Awards for Communications Excellence ucsf.edu/news/2022/07/4…

Reimagine rehabilitation. Amend cited in recent Los Angeles Times op-ed by Sharon Dolovich director of UCLA Prison Law latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Vincent Schiraldi Colette Peters worked with Amend/@briewsf to bring ideas from Norway's prisons to Oregon.

Here's one example of how that played out at The Marshall Project:

themarshallproject.org/2020/02/13/i-s…

Overcrowding. Old Buildings. & a COVID surge...the argument for Decarceration as outbreak mitigation in California prisons:
publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/res…

We are excited for Nneka Jones Tapia from Chicago Food Beyond to co-moderate our upcoming webinar on the health & wellbeing of correctional staff, happening on March 9th, 12 - 2 PM ET.

Learn more about Dr. Jones Tapia's work: chicagobeyond.org/nneka-jones-ta…

Register: zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Join us & send your DC-area people to our long-awaited launch event at the Nat'l Building Museum next Friday! Come explore a Freedom Library like the 6 (and counting) opened in prisons to date, and hear why Honorée Fanonne Jeffers & Jason Reynolds News are involved: eventbrite.com/e/march-forth-…

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Editorial: CALL SOLITARY WHAT IT IS: TORTURE | It's a serious breakthrough for a paper like the @WashingtonPost to publish this. Advocates, especially solitary survivors and families: YOU DID THIS. Be proud. @unlocktheboxnow ACLU NRCAT Amend washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

Great event coming up in March. Co-sponsored by Solomon Center @ YLS and Amend. #OccupationalHealth

📢If you have experience w/compassionate release efforts during the pandemic, my colleague (Jen James) & I would love to speak with you. Our research project is focused on understanding barriers & facilitators to compassionate release during #COVID19 . Please help us share!🙏

Putting a stop to solitary confinement in North Dakota, a case study from BMC Health & Justice

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Corrections vacancies are leading to more violence, less medical care and endless lockdowns. trib.al/HbITQXG

'The only commonality that solitary confinement should share with quarantine & medical isolation is a physical separation from other people.”
Amend #COVID19 guidance for correctional settings featured in a HuffPost article
huffpost.com/entry/medical-…

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer James, Pepper PESC-CADC Alumni Scholar, and mentor Dr. Brie Williams (@briewsf), for being awarded the Diversity Supplement with the NIA. Learn more: medicine.ucsf.edu/news/congratul… #diversity #ucsf UC San Francisco

Join this incredible program and get to work w amazing leaders like @briewsf Amend

Lastly, on 10/26 at 12:30 PM EST, we will host a panel on Prosecution, Drug Use & Public Health feat. Sherry Boston, Dan Satterberg, Andre Ward of The Fortune Society, and David Cloud of Amend, moderated by IIP Dep. Dir. Alissa Heydari.

Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 4/4

Amend is hiring - a passion for improving health and engaging in prison culture transformation is essential.

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Amend is hiring! We are searching for motivated, interesting, dedicated staff to join our team – a passion for improving health and engaging in prison culture transformation is essential.
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