UCLA Sleep Study for Formerly Incarcerated People - $30 Gift Card

UCLA is conducting a study to better understand the impact of having inadequate sleeping conditions in prisons.

This study will investigate the extent to which people are able to get adequate sleep while in prison, and the implications of lack of sleep/chronic sleep deprivation on individual physical, psychological and emotional health and on institutional safety and stability. It will also investigate the obstacles to adequate sleep experienced by corrections staff, and the negative health and safety effects of chronic sleep deprivation for corrections staff and for prison safety more generally.

Participation in this study is entirely voluntary. All contents of the interviews will be kept entirely confidential. Interviews will be recorded for transcription purposes only and no personal identifying information will be retained.

Participants will be asked to participate in a zoom interview, estimated to take 90-120 minutes. As a token of thanks to those who participate, participants will receive a $30 gift card.

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Eligibility Criteria

As part of this study, UCLA is seeking to conduct interviews with two groups of study participants:

A. Formerly incarcerated people: UCLA is hoping to interview people who have done time in prison and who are willing to discuss their experiences of sleeping/trying to sleep while incarcerated, the obstacles to getting adequate sleep, and the implications of their experience for themselves and for the facilities in which they were housed. UCLA seeks participants with a wide range of experience in terms of the state in which they were incarcerated, security level, type of housing inside (eg/ cell/dorm/solitary), and men’s/women’s facilities.

If you fall into this category and wish to participate, please fill out this form and someone will contact you.

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B. Formerly incarcerated people with a sleep apnea diagnosis, who used/tried to use a CPAP while in custody: UCLA is hoping to interview people with sleep apnea who used or tried to use a CPAP device while in prison or jail about that experience, about other things that may have made it hard to get a good sleep inside, and about the ways not getting enough sleep may have affected their safety while inside.

If you fall into this category and wish to participate, please fill out this form and someone will contact you.

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If you have any questions or are interested in participating or learning more, you can call 310-206-5568 or email - prisonsleepstudy@law.ucla.edu*

*Please note that UCLA cannot ensure the confidentiality of email communication to set up an interview.

If you have questions about your rights as a research subject, or you have concerns or suggestions and you want to talk to someone other than the researchers, you may contact the UCLA Office of Human Research Protection Program

• by phone: (310) 206-2040,
• by email: participants@research.ucla.edu,
• or by mail: Box 951406, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1406