Inmates At Georgia ICE Facility Say They Were Pressured Into Unneeded Surgeries

Immigrants Say They Were Pressured Into Needed Surgeries by Caitlin Dickerson, Seth Freed Wessler And Miriam Jordan.  The New York Times.  September 29, 2020.   

Former Georgia Resident Is A Case Study Illustrating The Difficulties Of Poor Transgender Women

"A Whole New Being":  A Transgender Woman's Journey by Deborah Sontag.  New York Times.  December 12, 2015. 

New Hormone Treatment For Transgender Georgia Inmate Supported By Justice Department; Viewed As Necessary Medical Care

Transgender Inmate's Hormone Treatment Lawsuit Gets Justice Department Backing by Matt Apuzzo.  The New York Times.  April 3, 2015. 

Georgia Prisons Hire Physicians Sanctioned For Patient Deaths, Injuries

Prison Docs Have Troubled Pasts by Danny Robbins.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  December 14, 2014.  Available in physical newspaper and by online subscription

California Program To Cover Released Pirsoners Aims For Reduced Recidivism

For Women Just Out Of Jail, Health Care Could B Key To Better Life by April Dembosky.  KQED/Kaiser Health News.  June 12, 2014.

Southern Prison Illustrates Issues In Prisoner Mental And Physical Health; Conditions Lead To Legal Actions

Seeing Squalor And Unconcern In A Mississippi Jail by Erica Goode.  The New York Times.  June 7, 2014.

American Medical Association Opposes Force Feeding At

AMA Opposes Force Feedings At Guantanamo by Carol Rosenberg.  The Miami Herald.  April 30, 2013.

The president of the AMA in his letter to Secretary Hagel cited his organization's long-time support for the World Medical Association Declaration of Tokyo which states:  "Where a prisoner refuses nourishment and is considered by the physician as capable of forming an unimpaired and rational judgment concerning the consequences of such a voluntary refusal of nourishment, he or she she shall not be fed artificially."