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For Incarcerated Individuals, Ensuring Proper Medical Care as a Right

For Incarcerated Individuals, Ensuring Proper Medical Care as a Right

Update: 2025-09-29

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Dr. Mark Fenig — Founder and Executive Director of Medical Justice Alliance, a Good People Fund grantee — describes alarming inequities and injustices in medical care afforded incarcerated individuals in the US … and how he was moved by ethics and conscience to change that reality, advocating for compassionate or medical care releases on a case by case basis. He speaks with GPF Associate Executive Director Julie Fisher.

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For Incarcerated Individuals, Ensuring Proper Medical Care as a Right

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