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Incarceration and Mortality Paradox
- Incarceration may lower mortality risk, especially for Black men, who have the highest mortality rates outside prison.
- Inside, they receive regular meals, housing, and healthcare, potentially exceeding their outside access.
Post-Incarceration Mortality Risk
- Most studies show higher mortality risk after release from prison compared to those never incarcerated.
- Jeff Weaver and colleagues investigated the reasons behind this increased risk.
Ohio's Natural Experiment
- The study utilized a natural experiment based on Ohio's criminal justice system, where similar cases are randomly assigned to judges.
- Judges have varying incarceration tendencies, allowing researchers to compare similar individuals with different incarceration outcomes.