Studies Crime Amd Public Policy Ser.: Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass ...

Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass IncarcerationAuthor(s): Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, Christopher Uggen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780190603823, 978-0190603823\nSynopsis\nA comprehensive examination of the connection between mass incarceration and health\n\nIn 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. \n\nPrisons 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 conseq.