ARRWIP is engaged in a number of research projects that address reproductive health and health care issues among people experiencing incarceration. Learn more about our studies by following the links below.
Until ARRWIP’s “Pregnancy in Prison Statistics” (PIPS) study, there have been no systematic data on how many pregnant people are behind bars in the U.S. or what happens to those pregnancies.
We are currently conducting a qualitative, interview-based study with incarcerated pregnant people in a jail and a prison each in 2 different states to explore the experiences of imprisoned, pregnant people and their pregnancy care during incarceration. Interviews focus on how the environment of confinement influences various decisions they make about their pregnancies.
While the standard of care for pregnant people with opioid use disorder (OUD) is to be on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) with methadone or buprenorphine, the PIPS study found that this care is not consistently available...
Rebecca Shlafer, PhD, of the University of Minnesota, collaborated with the ARRWIP team to assess how COVID-19 effects pregnancy care and policies in US prisons and jails.
The ARRWIP team is collaborating with a team from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on this study of people’s experiences with being incarcerated...
The ARRWIP team is collaborating with Brendan Saloner, PhD, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on this study examining the ethical dimensions...
In 2016, our team collaborated with B’more for Healthy Babies at the Baltimore City Health Department to conduct a reproductive health needs assessment among...
