Criminal Justice and Health Advisory Group

HPIO is facilitating a project, with guidance from a multi-sector advisory group, focused on the connections between the criminal justice system and health. The foundational policy brief for the project provides information on the:

• Impacts of criminal justice involvement on health outcomes
• Impacts of poor health on criminal justice involvement
• Impacts of racism and other underlying factors on criminal justice and health outcomes (including poverty, employment, education, housing and neighborhood conditions, and family and community violence)
• Actions state policymakers and other stakeholders can take to improve criminal justice and health outcomes in Ohio (i.e., policy options)

Click here to see a list of Advisory Group members

For more information, please contact Hailey Akah, Associate Vice President, at hakah@healthpolicyohio.org