Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP

Correctional Medical Consultant
1063 Plymouth Avenue
San Francisco CAUSA
94112

Biographical Sketch: Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP has been in the practice of medicine in California for 40 years. In 1975 he co-founded a homeopathic community clinic in Berkeley, the Hering Family Health Clinic. Since 1985 he has conducted a private practice of medicine in San Francisco. He began visiting prisoners in 1971 doing medical rights and advocacy. In 1980 he founded a group called Prisoner Health Advocates that provided second medical opinions to prisoners in California free of charge. In 1988 Dr. Weinstein developed a nationwide study of disciplinary practices in high security prisons published in 1994 under the title “The Myth of Humane Imprisonment…”. In the early 1990s Dr. Weinstein began working as a correctional medical consultant and earned his Certification as a Correctional Provider from the Nat’l Commission on Correctional Health Care. He is the immediate past Chair of the International Human Rights Committee of the American Public Health Association and was on the Task Force that wrote the 2003 APHA Standards for Health Services in Correctional Institutions. As a member of the IHRC he works with the WHO Health in Prison Project and the World Federation of Public Health Organizations advocating for prisoner rights. Dr. Weinstein is a founder of California Prison Focus, a 20 year old community based human rights organization that works with prisoners in California’s high security prisons. Since retiring from CPF he has pursued his human rights work through Avodah, the social justice committee of Or Shalom Jewish Community’s participation in the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.