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May 2008, Vol 98, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 782-786
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.126284

GOING PUBLIC

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

Lisa D. Moore, DrPH and Amy Elkavich, BA

Lisa Moore is with the Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. Amy Elkavich lives in Atlanta, GA.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Lisa Moore, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, HSS 315, San Francisco, CA 94132-4161 (e-mail: lisadee@sfsu.edu).

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


   INTRODUCTION
 
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 . . . [Full Text]


   WAR ON DRUGS
 

   WHO’S USING AND WHO’S DOING TIME
 
Who’s Using
Who’s Doing Time

   HEALTH ON THE INSIDE
 

   LIFE AFTER PRISON?
 

   EMERGENCY CALL AS A PERSONAL CONNECTION
 





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