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April 2002
 The Health Status
of Soon-To-Be-Released Inmates, Volume 2
In
the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997,
Congress instructed the U.S. Department of Justice
to set aside funding for a study of The Health Status
of Soon-To-Be-Released Inmates. As a result of
these earmarked funds, the National Institute of Justice
(NIJ), the research and evaluation arm of the U.S.
Department of Justice, entered into a cooperative agreement
with the National Commission on Correctional
Health Care (NCCHC) to conduct the study.
This report is the culmination of the project's work.
The project has shown unmistakably that a unique
opportunity exists to reduce the health risks and
financial costs to the community that are associated with
releasing large numbers of inmates with undiagnosed
and untreated diseases. Volume 2 of the report includes
the papers commissioned for the project. They
form the basis for the project's findings and policy
recommendations. Because they
have a large and concentrated population
of individuals at high risk for disease.
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