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By Elizabeth Hlavinka, MedPage Today, February 3, 2020 Homicide was the leading cause of death among pregnant and postpartum women in Louisiana in 2016-2017, an analysis of state death certificates found. Of 119 pregnancy-associated deaths to occur in the 2-year period, 16 (13.4%) were from homicide, reported Maeve Wallace, PhD, of Tulane University in New Orleans, and colleagues. Expressed as rates, maternal homicide deaths occurred in 12.9 of every 100,000 live births, markedly exceeding...

Mental health is a serious problem among the inmates in our country. According to the Vera Institute of Justice, a premier criminal justice research and advocacy non-profit, mental illness is one of the most significant problems facing women in prison today (Subramanian, 2016). In 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice found that 31% of incarcerated women have a serious mental illness, while only 15% of men report the same (James, 2006).