Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, New York.
Public Health Nurs. 2014 Mar-Apr;31(2):109-17. doi: 10.1111/phn.12072. Epub 2013 Aug 30.
To analyze 3-year recidivism after release from a prison nursery, a secure unit that allows imprisoned women to care for their infants.
Descriptive study of 139 women who co-resided with their infants between 2001 and 2007 in a New York State prison nursery.
Administrative criminal justice data were analyzed along with prospective study data on demographic, mental health, and prison nursery policy-related factors.
Results reflect a sample of young women of color with histories of clinically significant depressive symptoms and substance dependence, who were convicted of nonviolent crimes and had multiple prior arrests. Three years after release 86.3% remained in the community. Only 4% of women returned to prison for new crimes. Survival modeling indicated that women who had previously violated parole had a significantly shorter mean return to prison time than those who were in the nursery for a new crime.
Women released from a prison nursery have a low likelihood of recidivism. Innovative interventions are needed to address incarceration's public health effects. Nurses can partner with criminal justice organizations to develop, implement, and evaluate programs to ensure the health needs of criminal justice involved people and their families are met.
分析从监狱托儿所获释后 3 年内的累犯情况，该托儿所是一个允许被监禁妇女照顾婴儿的安全单位。
对 2001 年至 2007 年间在纽约州一所监狱托儿所与婴儿共同居住的 139 名妇女进行描述性研究。
对行政刑事司法数据进行分析，并对人口统计学、心理健康和监狱托儿所政策相关因素进行前瞻性研究数据。
结果反映了一个年轻有色人种女性的样本，她们有临床显著的抑郁症状和药物依赖史，被判犯有非暴力罪行，并有多次先前被捕。释放后 3 年内，86.3%的人仍留在社区。只有 4%的妇女因新罪返回监狱。生存模型表明，先前违反假释规定的妇女返回监狱的平均时间明显短于因新罪入狱的妇女。
从监狱托儿所获释的妇女累犯的可能性较低。需要创新干预措施来解决监禁对公共卫生的影响。护士可以与刑事司法组织合作，制定、实施和评估方案，以确保被监禁人员及其家人的健康需求得到满足。
