Life and death in Rikers Island / Homer Venters.
2019
RA448.N5 V46 2019eb
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Title
Life and death in Rikers Island / Homer Venters.
ISBN
9781421427362 (electronic book)
1421427362 (electronic book)
9781421427355
1421427354
1421427362 (electronic book)
9781421427355
1421427354
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 188 pages)
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RA448.N5 V46 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.109747/1
Summary
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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Table of Contents
Dying in jail : Carlos Mercado and Angel Ramirez
Injury and violence
Solitary confinement
Serious mental illness in jail
Human rights and correctional health
Race : Keleif Browder
Sexual assault on Rikers : Maria and Brianna
Correctional health
Transparency and governance
What to do with Rikers.
Injury and violence
Solitary confinement
Serious mental illness in jail
Human rights and correctional health
Race : Keleif Browder
Sexual assault on Rikers : Maria and Brianna
Correctional health
Transparency and governance
What to do with Rikers.