Carolyn Sufrin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 630798 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carolyn Sufrin |
| NOMBRES | Carolyn |
| APELLIDO | Sufrin |
| FIRMA | SUFRIN C |
| AFILIACIONES | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2739-9296 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
“I’m Giving Birth in Thirty Days, and I Still Know Nothing”
Prison nursery programs, where incarcerated postpartum women and birthing people live with their newborns, have expanded in recent years. We assessed women’s perceptions of applying to a prison nursery program, adding to a limited body of literature on nurseries. We conducted 17 qualitative interviews with incarcerated pregnant women at a state prison with a nursery program. We found that the nursery application process causes emotional distress,…
Structural and Policy Determinants of Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Among Pregnant People in U.S. Jails
Pregnant people in U.S. jails experience high rates of opioid use disorder (OUD), yet access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) remains inconsistent. This mixed-methods study examines how jail policies, treatment infrastructure, and political context shape MOUD provision for pregnant incarcerated individuals. We conducted a secondary analysis of a national survey of 2885 U.S. jails (analytic sample = 836). Logistic regression models as…
Social workers’ perspectives on anti-Black racism and parenting outcomes for incarcerated pregnant women with substance use histories
Black women who use substances face significant barriers to accessing resources and parenting their children, largely as a result of interactions with the criminal legal, child welfare, and healthcare systems. While extensive literature has demonstrated how structural racism and punitive policy approaches underpin the operation and impact of these systems, minimal attention has been paid to how social workers approach child, maternal, and family …
“It’s gotta be really hard to be a mom inside right now
BACKGROUND: Prisons are well understood to be hotspots of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, little is known about the impacts the COVID-19 pandemic has had on pregnant and postpartum people in prison. We conducted a secondary analysis of 63 semi-structured qualitative interviews (December 2021-May 2023) with subject matter experts, primarily perinatal program staff working in prisons, to better understand how perinatal support programs for people in pr…
Maternal health and incarceration
This paper will review the state of the science on maternal health and incarceration. We will provide a historical context on women, pregnancy, and mothers as it relates to mass incarceration, considering both structural racism and reproductive justice. We will discuss existing research that documents care, treatment, and outcomes of individuals who are incarcerated while pregnant or postpartum in the United States. We will discuss the implicatio…
A Qualitative Review of Organizational Covid-19 Communications and Guidance for Pregnant and Postpartum People Who Are Incarcerated
Background: Each year, thousands of pregnant or postpartum women enter prison and jails across the U.S. During the COVID-19 pandemic, pregnant people who were incarcerated were at increased risk of infection and health complications. Little is known about the role of national public health, medical, and carceral organizations in promoting the health and well-being of pregnant and postpartum people who are incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic…
Complicity Consciousness
The system's not getting my grandchild
Right to “Life”
The death penalty debate intensifies when condemned women are considered, at least in part because of the associations society holds between womanhood and motherhood. Consequently, the concept of motherhood inherently permeates every condemned woman's sentence. Using qualitative document analysis, we examine how pregnancy is accounted for in the death penalty statutes and execution protocols. In half of U.S. states, exceptions exist in the statut…
“They talked to me like I was dirt under their feet
Background: Many pregnant individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) spend time in jail, yet access to standard of care medications for OUD (MOUD) in jail is limited. Though qualitative studies of non-incarcerated pregnant and non-pregnant incarcerated individuals with OUD demonstrate complexities that must be considered in delivering effective care, studies with pregnant, incarcerated patients with OUD are lacking. Methods: We conducted semi-str…
Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the experiences of incarcerated pregnant people
Because I Was a Criminal and Drug Addict.”
Maybe if we weren't in the pandemic, I would have reconsidered”
The pandemic changed abortion care-seeking circumstances even in a setting with minimal access barriers. Financial hardship influenced some women to have an abortion for a pregnancy that-while unplanned-they may have preferred to continue
Automating Racism
Objective The clinical application of race-adjusted algorithms may perpetuate health inequities. We assessed the impact of the vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) calculator, which was revised in 2021 to address concerns about equity. The original algorithm factored race and ethnicity and gave lower VBAC probabilities to Black and Hispanic patients. Methods From 2019 to 2020, we conducted a multi-site, ethnographic study consisting of interviews …
Pandemic detention
Background: People incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic face higher vulnerability to infection due to structural and social factors in carceral settings. Additionally, due to the higher prevalence of chronic health conditions among carceral populations, they are also at risk for more severe COVID-19 disease. This study was designed to explore the experiences of people incarcerated in prisons and jails in Maryland during the height of the pan…
Release, Reentry, and Reintegration During Covid-19
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic had a large negative impact on people in U.S. prisons. Expedited releases from prison were one strategy used to decrease morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. However, little is known about the reentry experiences of those being rapidly released from custody early in the pandemic. Methods: We aimed to examine the perspectives of former residents in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) regarding release, reentry…
I mean, I didn't really have a choice of anything
Incarceration shaped participants' thoughts about pregnancy and their abilities to access abortion, consider whether abortion was an attainable option, and make pregnancy-related decisions. These subtle carceral control aspects presented more frequent barriers to abortion than overt logistical ones. The carceral environment played a more significant role than the state's overall abortion climate in shaping abortion experiences. Incarceration cons…
An exploratory study of Covid‐19‐related changes in abortion service availability and use in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia
Results revealed differences in abortion services, numbers, and types during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia
Incarceration Status Among Individuals Obtaining Abortion in the United States, 2020
Objectives. To examine the abortion frequency among incarcerated people before Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization was decided. Methods. We used data from the 2020 Abortion Provider Census to examine the number and distribution of facilities that provided abortions to incarcerated patients. Results. Sixty-seven clinics across 25 states and the District of Columbia provided more than 300 abortions to incarcerated patients in 2020. Eleven o…
Covid-19's Effect on Pregnancy Care for Incarcerated People
Objective/background: Prisons and jails are high risk environments for COVID-19. Little is known about COVID-19's impact on pregnancy care for the tens of thousands of pregnant people who pass through these institutions each year. This study aimed to describe how COVID-19 has influenced prisons' and jails' pregnancy care services. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of U.S. prisons and jails and report descripti…
Shackling and pregnancy care policies in US prisons and jails
Jail Provision of Pregnancy and Sexual Health Services in Four Midwestern States
Covid ‐19 impacts on abortion care‐seeking experiences in the Washington, DC , Maryland, and Virginia regions of the United States
COVID-19 influenced many people to have an abortion, particularly those financially disadvantaged by the pandemic. Expansion of Medicaid abortion coverage in Washington, DC and Virginia could reduce financial barriers to care and help people to better meet their reproductive needs amid future crises
The Compendium of U.S. jails
Seeking recognition through carceral health care bureaucracy
Bodies in Formation
Pregnancy Outcomes in US Prisons, 2016–2017
Objectives. To collect national data on pregnancy frequencies and outcomes among women in US state and federal prisons. Methods. From 2016 to 2017, we prospectively collected 12 months of pregnancy statistics from a geographically diverse sample of 22 state prison systems and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Prisons reported numbers of pregnant women, births, miscarriages, abortions, and other outcomes. Results. Overall, 1396 pregnant women were ad…
Reproductive Justice, Health Disparities And Incarcerated Women in the United States
When the Punishment is Pregnancy
In the age of Donald Trump, women' s reproductive bodies have become even more public and regulated canvases for moral narratives of women' s worth as humans and for the state' s claim to their bodies.We have witnessed increasing legal restrictions on abortion access, the undermining of insurance coverage for contraception, and a spectacular federal intrusion preventing a young woman held in immigration detention from having an abortion.But to fu…
Reproductive Justice Disrupted
We describe how mass incarceration directly undermines the core values of reproductive justice and how this affects incarcerated and nonincarcerated women. Mass incarceration, by its very nature, compromises and undermines bodily autonomy and the capacity for incarcerated people to make decisions about their reproductive well-being and bodies; this is done through institutionalized racism and is disproportionately done to the bodies of women of c…
Making mothers in jail
Because I Was a Criminal and Drug Addict.”
I mean, I didn't really have a choice of anything
Incarceration shaped participants' thoughts about pregnancy and their abilities to access abortion, consider whether abortion was an attainable option, and make pregnancy-related decisions. These subtle carceral control aspects presented more frequent barriers to abortion than overt logistical ones. The carceral environment played a more significant role than the state's overall abortion climate in shaping abortion experiences. Incarceration cons…
An exploratory study of Covid‐19‐related changes in abortion service availability and use in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia
Results revealed differences in abortion services, numbers, and types during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia
Covid ‐19 impacts on abortion care‐seeking experiences in the Washington, DC , Maryland, and Virginia regions of the United States
COVID-19 influenced many people to have an abortion, particularly those financially disadvantaged by the pandemic. Expansion of Medicaid abortion coverage in Washington, DC and Virginia could reduce financial barriers to care and help people to better meet their reproductive needs amid future crises
Seeking recognition through carceral health care bureaucracy
What Women Want
Objectives. We undertook this study to understand women’s perceptions of receiving contraception at Rikers Island Jail. Methods. We conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews in 2011 to 2012 with 32 women incarcerated at Rikers Island Jail. We analyzed the data using standard qualitative techniques. Results. Almost all participants believed that contraception should be provided at the jail. However, many said they would hesitate to use these s…
Incarcerated Women and Abortion Provision
Although incarceration does not preclude women's need for access to abortion, full access to services is not available in all settings. Improving women's overall health care in correctional settings should include increasing the accessibility of abortion services
Emergency Contraception for Newly Arrested Women
Incarcerated Women and Abortion Provision
Although incarceration does not preclude women's need for access to abortion, full access to services is not available in all settings. Improving women's overall health care in correctional settings should include increasing the accessibility of abortion services
Emergency Contraception for Newly Arrested Women
Legislating Abortion Care
One Hundred Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology. A statement on abortion by 100 professors of obstetrics: 40 years later. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2013;209(3):193-199. Minkoff H, Ecker J. When legislators play doctor: the ethics of mandatory preabortion ultrasound examinations. Obstet Gynecol. 2012;120(3):647-649
Bodies in Formation
“Doctor, Why Didn’t You Adopt My Baby?” Observant Participation, Care, and the Simultaneous Practice of Medicine and Anthropology
Reproductive Justice, Health Disparities And Incarcerated Women in the United States
Long‐Acting Reversible Contraceptives for Incarcerated Women
It is safe and feasible to provide LARC methods to incarcerated women. Correctional facilities should consider increasing access to all available contraceptives, including LARC methods, in a noncoercive manner as a strategy to reduce reproductive health disparities among marginalized women at high risk of unplanned pregnancies
What Women Want
Objectives. We undertook this study to understand women’s perceptions of receiving contraception at Rikers Island Jail. Methods. We conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews in 2011 to 2012 with 32 women incarcerated at Rikers Island Jail. We analyzed the data using standard qualitative techniques. Results. Almost all participants believed that contraception should be provided at the jail. However, many said they would hesitate to use these s…
Jailcare
Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation's jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. This book explores how jail has, paradoxically, become a place where women can find care. Focusing on the experiences of incarcerated pregnant women as well as on the…
Making mothers in jail
Pregnancy Outcomes in US Prisons, 2016–2017
Objectives. To collect national data on pregnancy frequencies and outcomes among women in US state and federal prisons. Methods. From 2016 to 2017, we prospectively collected 12 months of pregnancy statistics from a geographically diverse sample of 22 state prison systems and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Prisons reported numbers of pregnant women, births, miscarriages, abortions, and other outcomes. Results. Overall, 1396 pregnant women were ad…
When the Punishment is Pregnancy
In the age of Donald Trump, women' s reproductive bodies have become even more public and regulated canvases for moral narratives of women' s worth as humans and for the state' s claim to their bodies.We have witnessed increasing legal restrictions on abortion access, the undermining of insurance coverage for contraception, and a spectacular federal intrusion preventing a young woman held in immigration detention from having an abortion.But to fu…
Rethinking “Elective” Procedures for Women's Reproduction during Covid‐19
Common hospital and surgical center responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic included curtailing “elective” procedures, which are typically determined based on implications for physical health and survival. However, in the focus solely on physical health and survival, procedures whose main benefits advance components of well‐being beyond health, including self‐determination, personal security, economic stability, equal respect, and creation of meaningf…
Improving Health Equity for Women Involved in the Criminal Legal System
Silent Cells
Reviewed by: Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America by Anthony Ryan Hatch Carolyn Sufrin Anthony Ryan Hatch. Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. viii + 176 pp. Ill. $19.95 (978-1-5179-0744-0). It is no secret that institutions of incarceration in the United States remain some of the most opaque establishments in our society. Anthony Ryan Hatch delves into the logics…
Stigma and US Nurses’ Intentions to Provide the Standard of Maternal Care to Incarcerated Women, 2017
Objectives. To examine relationships among actionable drivers and facilitators of stigma and nurses’ intentions to provide the standard of maternal care recommended by the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) for incarcerated women. Methods. We conducted a Web-based survey of perinatal nurses in the United States (n = 665; participation rate 98.0%; completion rate 95.3%) in July through September 2017. We used mu…
Reproductive Justice Disrupted
We describe how mass incarceration directly undermines the core values of reproductive justice and how this affects incarcerated and nonincarcerated women. Mass incarceration, by its very nature, compromises and undermines bodily autonomy and the capacity for incarcerated people to make decisions about their reproductive well-being and bodies; this is done through institutionalized racism and is disproportionately done to the bodies of women of c…
The Compendium of U.S. jails
Seeking recognition through carceral health care bureaucracy
Covid-19's Effect on Pregnancy Care for Incarcerated People
Objective/background: Prisons and jails are high risk environments for COVID-19. Little is known about COVID-19's impact on pregnancy care for the tens of thousands of pregnant people who pass through these institutions each year. This study aimed to describe how COVID-19 has influenced prisons' and jails' pregnancy care services. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of U.S. prisons and jails and report descripti…
Shackling and pregnancy care policies in US prisons and jails
Jail Provision of Pregnancy and Sexual Health Services in Four Midwestern States
Covid ‐19 impacts on abortion care‐seeking experiences in the Washington, DC , Maryland, and Virginia regions of the United States
COVID-19 influenced many people to have an abortion, particularly those financially disadvantaged by the pandemic. Expansion of Medicaid abortion coverage in Washington, DC and Virginia could reduce financial barriers to care and help people to better meet their reproductive needs amid future crises
Pandemic detention
Background: People incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic face higher vulnerability to infection due to structural and social factors in carceral settings. Additionally, due to the higher prevalence of chronic health conditions among carceral populations, they are also at risk for more severe COVID-19 disease. This study was designed to explore the experiences of people incarcerated in prisons and jails in Maryland during the height of the pan…
Release, Reentry, and Reintegration During Covid-19
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic had a large negative impact on people in U.S. prisons. Expedited releases from prison were one strategy used to decrease morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. However, little is known about the reentry experiences of those being rapidly released from custody early in the pandemic. Methods: We aimed to examine the perspectives of former residents in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) regarding release, reentry…
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