[DogByte6RER]

"Prison authorities can also help to protect the health of inmates while they're still behind bars by allowing the distribution of condoms, and by implementing needle-exchange programs, suggested Susan Okie, M.D.,..."

Susan Okie - a left-wing liberal hug-a-thug pinhead who is concerned more about prison convicts having "safe sex" than about the safety and security of her own neighbors and community.

[DogByte6RER]

"Release from Prison Equivalent to Death Sentence for Some" Hah! These pinhead professors are right about one thing...my release from prison will mean the death sentence for you Simpson family!

[Gay State Conservative]

"Prison authorities can also help to protect the health of inmates while they're still behind bars by allowing the distribution of condoms...

I wonder if this fool appreciates the fact that very few sexual encounters that occur in prison involve two willing participants.

[Jeff Head]

What the convicts do after release is up to them. They are freed. It should come as no surprise that their accident, crime, and death rates are higher than those citizens who have not broken the law. Proportionally much higher percentage of them will choose a criminal life style and they suffer the consequences.

IMHO, the real answer is to be much harder on crime. Harsher life in prison, much more time for violent criminals, less paroling, more application of the death penalty for murder, kidnapping, violent rape, etc.

That's the answer as opposed to mushy-feely efforts which have shown themselves, by these very statistics, to make the problem worse rather than addressing it.

[Grizzled Bear]

Did it occur to these oh-so-smart doctors that the behavior/decisions of these former state guests is directly involved in thier demise?

Just what occured to me. Then again I aint a doctor so what do I know.

[Palladin]

BOO-sniggering-HOO!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

They've torn down the old high-rise housing projects on the southside of Chicago and dispersed the residents to other projects in the city or the suburbs. I read the other day about increasing gang activity and crime in general in those projects when former residences of the high-rises, who are released from prison, go home to the new projects and go right back to doing what got them convicted and sent away in the first place.

So no one should be surprised that they are dying.

[wideawake]

The findings suggest the need for planned reintegration of inmates through use of halfway houses, work-release programs, drug-treatment programs, drug abuse education, and preventive medical care to modify cardiac risk factors, the researchers wrote.

What the findings actually suggest is that ex-cons need to man up and get their acts together if they expect to make it in the real world.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Maybe being in prison kept them from fully entertaining their own self-destructive tendencies so that when they are released they have already exceeded their probable life expectancy.

In other words, being in prison had an anti-Darwin effect on them, and when they get out Darwin finally catches up.

[Joe 6-pack]

In the case of Jim McDougal, he never even made it out of prison....perhaps these Doc's ought to look for other statistically significant causes of death....like relationships to the Clintons.

[arthurus]

I don't think it is in the interests of potential victims of crime to keep these released prisoners alive by extra and taxpaid means.

[Gingersnap]

I'm laughing while reading this. The very last thing the average former criminal wants to do is listen to a bunch of lectures on nutrition and drug abuse delivered by boring,
middle class social workers.

The prospect of sitting around in "group" role-modeling how to order a healthy fast food lunch will simply make most of them want to take more drugs.

[Chode]

maybe it's because they are CRIMINALS you stooopid cow you... more tax payer funded mooching from the looters.

[Continental Soldier]

If release from prison carries such risks, maybe, prisoners should be kept in prison forever.

[LibKill]

The leading causes of death among ex-convicts were drug overdose, cardiovascular disease, murder and suicide

I don't know what the deal is with cardiovascular disease, but the other three are probably the result of really bad choices.

Now I do know someone who was in prison and is now leading a useful and civilised life (NO, it's not me). He realized that he had really screwed-up big time and resolved to live a better life. At the rate he's going I'd say he'll probably live to be a hundred.

Release from prison does not have to be a death trip.