Health Impacts of Mass Incarceration

Bervera, Xochitl; Hairston-Blanks, Starla; Patterson, Evelyn

Title:

Health Impacts of Mass Incarceration

dc.contributor.author	Bervera, Xochitl
dc.contributor.author	Hairston-Blanks, Starla
dc.contributor.author	Patterson, Evelyn
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of History and Sociology	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Racial Justice Action Center	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Morehouse School of Medicine	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Sociology	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2017-10-11T17:50:23Z
dc.date.available	2017-10-11T17:50:23Z
dc.date.issued	2017-10-02
dc.description	Presented on October 2, 2017 from 3:00 -5:00 p.m. in t he Bill Moore Student Success Center, Clary Theater.	en_US
dc.description	Xochitl Bervera is a lawyer, organizer, and movement builder. She is the Director of the Atlanta-based Racial Justice Action Center, which is home to the Solutions Not Punishment Coalition and Women on the Rise.	en_US
dc.description	Starla Hairston-Blanks is the Director of Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved of Morehouse School of Medicine, which is dedicated to addressing health disparities, research, policy and practice.	en_US
dc.description	Evelyn J. Patterson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Demography, and Social Science Research. In 2012, the American Sociological Association awarded her for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population.	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 119:23 minutes	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Reentry is a process that occurs the moment a person is imprisoned, released from prison, and reintegrates back into society, often without much direction. Given the marginalization of this terminology, we refer to the justice involved population as “returning citizens” given the overwhelming majority of individual’s incarcerated return to their communities. Upon leaving, returning citizens are expected to find housing, employment, and connect with their support system, often with little to no guidance. (Holzer, Raphael, & Stoll, 2003). Incarceration and the collateral damage impact it has on an individual once released is an overarching theme of “what’s next?” On average, within three years of release, roughly 67.8 percent of released prisoner’s recidivated (returned to prison or jail) and within five years of release, 76.6% were rearrested. When individuals continue to return to the correctional system at a rate where over -half, there should be viable solutions created to allow returning citizens to become productive members of their society and be of benefit to their families. How are African-American men going to interact with their partners, families, and if fortunate enough gain employment with a living wage, coworkers and employers when some have been traumatized due to the conditions of prison? How are African-American men to return to their children and foster healthy relationships if their chances of going back to prison are high? Studies show that African-American men would like the opportunity to connect in a social and economic ecological structure, preferably without stigma attached to them as returning citizens and reestablish themselves within their family structure. Furthermore, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported in 2015 there were 6.5 million adults under correctional supervision in the United States. This includes the number of adults who are incarcerated in federal and state correctional facilities or are currently under probation. Of this population, 1.4 million were men with a disproportionate number being African American who are 5 times more likely to be incarcerated than their Caucasian counterparts. When examining the impact of family reunification and recidivism the literature and research often focuses on motherhood and misses the direct impact of the father/child relationship on reducing likelihood to reoffend. Parental engagement not only has been proven to decrease the likelihood of reoffending, but literature shows that children who share bonds with fathers, even with non-custodial fathers are less likely to engage in delinquent actions and anti-social behaviors. Following research conducted by the Community Voices Division of Morehouse School of Medicine on African American fathers, justice involved populations and recidivism rates; this presentation will focus on the impact of mass incarceration at the intersection of racism, health and justice	en_US
dc.format.extent	119:23 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/58828
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	HSOC Speakers Series
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Group on Race and Racism in Contemporary Biomedicine
dc.subject	Criminal justice	en_US
dc.subject	Family	en_US
dc.subject	Health	en_US
dc.subject	Incarceration	en_US
dc.subject	Race	en_US
dc.title	Health Impacts of Mass Incarceration	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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