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Life and Death in Rikers Island (Paperback)
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Life and Death in Rikers Island (Paperback)
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Shining a light on the deadly health consequences of incarceration.
Finalist in the PROSE Award for Best Book in Anthropology,
Criminology, and Sociology by the Association of American
Publishers Kalief Browder was 16 when he was arrested in the Bronx
for allegedly stealing a backpack. Unable to raise bail and
unwilling to plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit, Browder
spent three years in New York's infamous Rikers Island jail-two in
solitary confinement-while awaiting trial. After his case was
dismissed in 2013, Browder returned to his family, haunted by his
ordeal. Suffering through the lonely hell of solitary, Browder had
been violently attacked by fellow prisoners and corrections
officers throughout his incarceration. Consumed with depression,
Browder committed suicide in 2015. He was just 22 years old. In
Life and Death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters, the former chief
medical officer for New York City's jails, explains the profound
health risks associated with incarceration. From neglect and sexual
abuse to blocked access to care and exposure to brutality, Venters
details how jails are designed and run to create new health risks
for prisoners-all while forcing doctors and nurses into complicity
or silence. Pairing prisoner experiences with cutting-edge research
into prison risk, Venters reveals the disproportionate extent to
which the health risks of jail are meted out to those with
behavioral health problems and people of color. He also presents
compelling data on alternative strategies that can reduce health
risks. This revelatory and groundbreaking book concludes with the
author's analysis of the case for closing Rikers Island jails and
his advice on how to do it for the good of the incarcerated.
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