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Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Hardcover)
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Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Hardcover)
Series: STUDIES CRIME AMD PUBLIC POLICY SERIES
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A comprehensive examination of the connection between mass
incarceration and health In an age when over two million people are
incarcerated in the United States alone, the wide-reaching impact
of prisons in our society is impossible to deny, and the
paradoxical relationship between prisons and health has never been
more controversial. Prisons are charged at the same time with being
punitive and therapeutic, with denying freedom and administering
treatment, with confining and rehabilitating. And they are not
living up to the charge. Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass
Incarceration examines the connection between prisons and health.
Based on a decade of empirical research, this book explores the
consequences of incarceration on inmates themselves; on the
families they leave behind; on the larger communities to which they
return; and, ultimately, on entire health care systems at the state
and national level. Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, and
Christopher Uggen demonstrate that the relationship between
incarceration and health is sustained by a combination of social,
cultural, and legal forces, and by a failure to recognize that
prisons are now squarely in the business of providing care. With an
eye to the history that led us to this point, the book investigates
these connections and shows how prisons undermine health and
well-being. An evenhanded and comprehensive analysis, this
groundbreaking volume demonstrates that the prison system produces
unintended and far-reaching consequences for the health of our
nation and points the way for a fairer and more effective justice
system.
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