Name: Life and Death in Rikers Island (en Inglés)
Price: 144190.00 COP
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Author: Homer Venters
ISBN: 9781421427355

portada Life and Death in Rikers Island (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Johns Hopkins University Press

Autor

Homer Venters

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

200

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781421427355

N° edición

Categorías

Sistemas y servicios de la salud

Life and Death in Rikers Island (en Inglés)

Homer Venters (Autor) · Johns Hopkins University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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.