Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration

by Christopher Uggen, Michael Massoglia, Jason Schnittker

A comprehensive examination of the connection between mass incarceration and health

In an age when over two million people are incarcerated in the United States alone, the wide-reaching impact of prisons in our society is impossible to deny, and the paradoxical relationship between prisons and health has never been more controversial. Prisons are charged at the same time with being punitive and therapeutic, with denying freedom...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190603828
• ISBN13: 9780190603823
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.3"