Carolyn Beth Sufrin
Associate Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, School of Medicine; Associate Professor of Health, Behavior and Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Chapter Member: Maryland-Washington, D.C. SSN
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About Carolyn
Sufrin’s research interests focus on the intersection of the politics of reproduction and mass incarceration. Sufrin started a women’s health clinic at the San Francisco County Jail that continues to provide gynecologic and obstetric care to female inmates. She also serves on the board of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. Sufrin is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and serves on the organization’s Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women. She has served as a technical advisor on local and federal legislation prohibiting the use of restraints on pregnant incarcerated women, as well as on other reproductive health policy interventions affecting this group of women.
Contributions
Unsettling Realities of Care – Especially for Pregnant Women – in U.S. Jails
Key Findings Brief,
No Jargon Podcast
In the News
Quoted by Mona Chalabi in "North Carolina Ends Shackling of Inmates during Childbirth," The Guardian, March 28, 2018.
Quoted by Lauren Hotler in "Treatment Of Pregnant Inmates Just Got (Marginally) Better in North Carolina," Bustle, March 28, 2018.
Interviewed in "It's 2017, and Most States Still Allow Shackling of Prisoners During Labor and Delivery," Mother Jones, August 5, 2017.
Interviewed in "‘What We Do to Women behind Bars’: A Q&A with ‘Jailcare’ Author Dr. Carolyn Sufrin," Rewire, June 2, 2017.
Research discussed by Vice News, May 16, 2017.
Quoted by Renee Bracey Sherman in "It Shouldn’t Take a Superhero to Access Abortion Care in Prison, but in ‘Jessica Jones’ It Does," RH Reality Check, December 18, 2015.
Quoted by Simone Weichselbaum in "Could Virtual OBGYN Services Help Stop Miscarriages? One Arkansas Jail Hopes So," The Marshall Project, , December 10, 2015.
Opinion: "Helping Women and Girls in Prison," Carolyn Beth Sufrin, New York Times, December 10, 2015.
Quoted by Jennifer Abbey in "Pregnant Inmate Sues after Being Forced to Wear Shackles during Labor," ABC News, June 29, 2012.
Opinion: "End Practice of Shackling Pregnant Inmates," Carolyn Beth Sufrin, San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2010.