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April 2006, Vol 96, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 589
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.083691

LETTER

INCARCERATION AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS

April M. W. Young, PhD

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to April M. W. Young, PhD, Collins Center for Public Policy, 150 SE 2nd Ave, Suite 709, Miami, FL 33131 (e-mail: ayoung@collinscenter.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Thank you for the special issue dedicated to prisons and health (October 2005). In addition to calling attention to the many complex health and social issues relevant to the experience of imprisonment, this issue calls upon us to recast incarceration as the public health crisis it is.

For me, working for nearly 3 years in Overtown, the most distressed neighborhood in Miami, Fla, has meant bearing witness to the impact of mass incarceration upon a community and its inhabitants. In a Community Voices study of men’s health in Overtown to be published soon (A. M. W. Young and S. Fryberg, . . . [Full Text]






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