A common challenge for people being released from prison and jail is maintaining their health care. Whether a brief stay for a younger person in Orleans Parish Prison awaiting trial, or decades spent at Angola by a now-elderly individual, there was no formal pathway from incarcerated person to healthy patient until 2015, when we established a partnership with Tulane University School of Medicine. That year, the Formerly Incarcerated Transitions (FIT) Clinic took its first patient and it continues to provide medical care to people with convictions on an all-volunteer basis.
Along with doctors and medical students from Tulane, our formerly incarcerated community health workers Danielle Metz and Haki Sekou lead this work. Contact them directly if you would like to get involved with this clinic or to participate in organizing for the medical rights of formerly incarcerated people.
Along with doctors and medical students from Tulane, our formerly incarcerated community health workers Danielle Metz and Haki Sekou lead this work. Contact them directly if you would like to get involved with this clinic or to participate in organizing for the medical rights of formerly incarcerated people.
