The Square: The Health of [Individuals who are Incarcerated]

“The healthcare [in prison] was inadequate at best,” notes Andre, “and while you may have received some medical attention, the attention wasn’t the kind of deep attention that one would get if you had private healthcare or you paid for healthcare. So, not having that kind of resource to fully deal with people’s health needs, people develop high blood pressure, people develop diabetes because of the substandard nutritional factors inside of the food…”