1. Josiah D. Rich ( ) is a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Brown University and director and cofounder of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at the Miriam Hospital, in Providence, Rhode Island.
2. Redonna Chandler is the acting director of the Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in Bethesda, Maryland.
3. Brie A. Williams is an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, in the Division of Geriatrics and is medical director at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Geriatrics Clinic.
4. Dora Dumont is a senior epidemiologist at the Rhode Island Department of Health, in Providence. She was a research associate at the Miriam Hospital when this research was conducted.
5. Emily A. Wang is an assistant professor of general medicine at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.
6. Faye S. Taxman is a professor in the Criminology, Law, and Society Department and runs the Center for Advancing Excellence at George Mason University, in Manassas, Virginia.
7. Scott A. Allen is a clinical professor of medicine at Riverside School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside.
8. Jennifer G. Clarke is an attending physician at the Center for Primary Care and Prevention at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, in Pawtucket.
9. Robert B. Greifinger is an adjunct professor of health and criminal justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, in New York City.
10. Christopher Wildeman is an associate professor of sociology at Yale University.
11. Fred C. Osher is the director of health services and systems policy at the Council of State Governments Justice Center, in Johns Island, South Carolina.
12. Steven Rosenberg is president of Community Oriented Correctional Health Services, in Oakland, California.
13. Craig Haney is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
14. Marc Mauer is executive director of the Sentencing Project, in Washington, D.C.
15. Bruce Western is a professor of sociology at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.