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Examining Health Violence in Alabama Prisons

On December 2, 2025, a grassroots organizing movement made up of incarcerated people called the Free Alabama Movement, announced their plan for a statewide shutdown of the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC). This was in response to decades of unlivable, cruel, and inhumane living conditions and treatment of incarcerated people in Alabama prisons. The Free Alabama Movement illustrates how Alabama prisons are a public health and humanitarian crisis that demand our attention.

Why Public Health Needs Reproductive Justice

As I reflect on the current state of the world and the United States’ active role in many issues—immigration rights, abortion rights, trans rights, access to healthcare, police brutality, incarceration, censorship, fascism, imperialism, to name a few—I remind myself that these issues are all coming from the same systems of oppression. The lens of reproductive justice helps us see how these systems are operationalized and connected; when we know how they operate, we are better equipped to disrupt, or at the very least, not perpetuate them. 

How Micro-Moments Support Children’s Mental Health

Micro-practices function as tools that help children regulate stress, build emotional awareness, and cope in environments where access to formal care is often limited or delayed. When rooted within broader ecosystems of care—such as families, schools, community programs, and health infrastructure—their impact is amplified, supporting children between, alongside, and sometimes in the absence of clinical intervention.
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