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November 2009, Vol 99, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1925-1926
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.175067

LETTERS

WILPER ET AL. RESPOND

Andrew P. Wilper, MD, MPH

The author is with Boise VA Medical Center, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Boise, ID.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Andrew P. Wilper, MD, MPH, 500 West Fort St, Boise, Idaho 83702 (e-mail: wilp9522@u.washington.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100% of the full text and any section headings.

Thanks to Spaulding and McCallum for highlighting these analyses, which provide a useful complement to the data we presented. The initial draft of our article included a reference to the 2006 Maruschak paper1 as well as the monograph by James and Glaze.2 These references were inadvertently deleted before final submission. The later Maruschak paper3 appeared after we had completed our literature review.

Our estimate of approximately 12 million annual releases is meant to represent the total number from both jails and prisons, that is, it includes repeat releases.


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Accepted for publication June 26, 2009.

1. Maruschak LM. Medical problems of jail inmates. Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin. November 2006, NCJ 210696. Available at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/mpji.pdf. Accessed June 25, 2009.

2. James DJ, Glaze LE. Mental health problems of prison and jail inmates. Bureau of Justice Statistics. September 2006, NCJ 213600. Available at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/mhppji.pdf. Accessed June 25, 2009.

3. Maruschak LM. Medical problems of prisoners. Bureau of Justice Statistics Report. April 2008, NCJ 221740. Available at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/html/mpp/mpp.htm. Accessed June 25, 2009.






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