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Who’s Using and Who’s Doing Time: Incarceration, the War on Drugs, and Public Health

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: WITHOUT A PERSONAL connection, scientists, researchers, and those who set public policy rarely know the stories of those who are convicted of felony crimes and sentenced to prison: how they came to be convicted, whom they left behind, and what they went home to once released. But the consequences of their imprisonment—social, economic, political, and personal—are evidenced daily in every major city, suburban town, and rural hamlet. We aim to reframe the growth of the prison industrial complex and the war on drugs from the perspective of those incarcerated for nonviolent, drug-related crimes. By framing the issue this way, we . . .

Source: American Journal of Public Health

DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2007.126284

Authors: Lisa D. Moore, Amy Elkavich

Institution: San Francisco State University

Language: English

Topic: Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities