Looking Back: Decarcerating Immigration Prisons as a Tool for Improved Health

Affiliations

¹ Caitlin Patler is with the Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis. Altaf Saadi is with the Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Ahilan Arulanantham is with the Center for Immigration Law & Policy, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles.

Editorial

Caitlin Patler et al. Am J Public Health. 2023 Jul.

. 2023 Jul;113(7):732-735.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2023.307293. Epub 2023 Apr 13.

¹ Caitlin Patler is with the Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis. Altaf Saadi is with the Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Ahilan Arulanantham is with the Center for Immigration Law & Policy, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles.

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