Prison health is community health
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- Published on Thursday, 18 August 2016 15:15
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The need for prison needle exchange
Dear friends,
We all pay a price when people emerge from prison sicker, angrier and more marginalized than when they went in.
Problems in prisons do not stay locked up behind the walls, but inevitably spill out into our communities.
Canadian prisons have a critical problem with HIV and Hepatitis C infections, and there is an easy and sensible way to reduce this threat to community health.
These vital harm reduction tools are already available in hundreds of communities across Canada, and they make an important contribution to reducing the spread of infectious disease, and protecting community health.
Despite the clear benefits of these programs, Canadian prisoners are denied access to sterile injecting equipment. We are one of a big number of civil society groups calling for this to change.
Ultimately, prison health is community health.
Read more about our intervention seeking to establish prison needle exchange programs.
Kind regards,
Laura Track, BCCLA Counsel
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