User:Madisonminelli/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)

Prison healthcare

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose to evaluate this article because it is the topic for our group Wiki project and I wanted to learn more about it before starting to work on the project. I think this is an incredibly important and relevant topic for today's societal issue of mass incarceration. My first impression was that the article was a good length (maybe a little short) and that the images looked really helpful in adding support to the body of the article.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The first sentence of the article concisely and clearly describes what the term "prison healthcare" means. The lead is not overly detailed and does not include any information that is not present in the rest of the article. The article's content is completely relevant to the topic and up-to-date, outlining the term's history up through the 21st century. It even addresses prison healthcare in countries outside the United States, including Ghana and the United Kingdom. However, I think that the description given under the "Ghana" section could be a little more detailed, being as it is only two sentences long. The article addresses the equity gap about the marginal nature of prison healthcare and mass incarceration as a whole. I think that the article generally maintains a neutral tone, though towards the end it seems to ridicule the harsh reality of prison healthcare. All the article's facts are supported by a wide range of reliable sources of information, predominantly well-respected medical journals. The article is well-written and easy to read. One of its strengths is that it is not intimidating upon first glance because it is relatively short, which makes it more appealing to want to read. The article uses three, well-captioned images to enhance the understanding of the topic. On the "Talk page," various users, including a group of Georgetown students, have suggested that the article better address disparities in mental health. Others have suggested that the article take a closer look at women's healthcare in prisons specifically, which I also think would be a useful addition. The article itself is a part of three different WikiProjects, including WikiProject Medicine, WikiProject Correction and Detention Facilities, and WikiProject Human Rights. Overall, I think the article does an excellent job of giving a general overview and brief history of the term "prison healthcare." I do think, however, that there are some places in which more detail could be added, making it slightly underdeveloped, yet leaving room for easy improvement.

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