Authored by: Nora Sheu Art by: Sophia Liu Across the United States, prison healthcare systems are chronically underfunded and understaffed. Nearly 2 million prisoners in the United States are less healthy than the general population, an urgent problem that must be addressed as the number continues to grow [1]. A study examining the 170,215 Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) inmates incarcerated between August 1997 and July 1998 revealed inmates’ increased risk for infectious diseases...