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   * Staff
   * Careers
 * Initiatives
   * Prison Culture Change Initiative
   * Health Policy Consulting and Analysis
   * Prison Healthcare System Improvement
   * Research and Evaluation
 * CalPROTECT
   * About
 * Resources
   * Amend Publications
   * CalPROTECT Publications
 * Support


A PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH TO ADDRESSING PRISON HARMS


ABOUT AMEND AT UCSF

AMEND AT UCSF IS A PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM THAT WORKS IN PRISONS
TO REDUCE THEIR DEBILITATING HEALTH EFFECTS ON RESIDENTS AND STAFF, WHILE ALSO
JOINING POLICY MAKERS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS TO ADVANCE DECARCERATION STRATEGIES
AND A BETTER, NEW SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND HEALING IN THE US. WE FOCUS ON
HEALTH-FOCUSED CULTURE-CHANGE INITIATIVES, STAFF TRAINING, PUBLIC EDUCATION,
ADVOCACY, AND POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH.


DECARCERATION

Any conversation about transformational change in U.S. prisons must start with a
call to significantly reduce the U.S. prison population. Getting people out of
prison is the priority. Continued mass incarceration undermines public health –
for incarcerated people, for the people who work inside prisons, and for the
families and communities of all people impacted by these institutions. As a
public health program, Amend supports directly impacted people, advocates,
lawmakers, and others to advance compelling, evidence-based calls to sharply
reduce U.S. prison populations.


HARM-REDUCTION

As a diverse and growing community of citizens, elected officials,
practitioners, and experts advance the cause of decarceration, immediate action
is required to reduce the harms that prisons impose on impacted people. Millions
of Americans – as well as their families and communities – are suffering today
as the result of prisons that are overcrowded and far too often designed and
operated to punish rather than to heal and restore. Amend’s initiatives are
laser-focused on transforming the norms, practices, and policies that define
prison culture and prison healthcare services. Calls for decarceration must also
take seriously the urgent need to reduce harms occurring in prisons across our
country right now.


MOVEMENT-BUILDING

Ground-up solutions to improve people’s lives are at the center of
transformational change. We believe in the equal dignity and value of every
human life – and in the power of every person to play a critical role in
transforming the meaning and practice of incarceration in the U.S. At Amend,
that means creating space in this movement for all who care deeply about
reducing harm and replacing punishment with public health in our prisons.


MAKING AMENDS

Making Amends for the broken and destructive system of incarceration in the U.S.
requires rejecting our harmful status quo and advancing constructive solutions
for a more just, humane, and healthier way forward. Amend is committed to
both. We call on health professionals, prison leaders and staff, elected
officials, and community members to recognize and act on the current health
crisis in United States prisons.


INITIATIVES




PRISON CULTURE CHANGE INITIATIVE



Bringing international best practices in public health to change the culture in
US prisons.


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PRISON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT



Offering analysis and technical assistance focused on improving prison
healthcare with a focus on aging and serious illness.


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HEALTH POLICY CONSULTING AND ANALYSIS



Providing analysis of state and federal legislation, and assistance with
developing healthcare-related policies in US prisons.


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RESEARCH AND EVALUATION



Creating an evidence base for public health-focused prison culture change and
improved healthcare in prisons.


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