The Resource Life and death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters
Life and death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters
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The item Life and death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- Kalief Browder was 16 when he was arrested in the Bronx for allegedly stealing a backpack. Unable to raise bail and unwilling to plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit, Browder spent three years in New York's infamous Rikers Island jail "two in solitary confinement"while awaiting trial. After his case was dismissed in 2013, Browder returned to his family, haunted by his ordeal. Suffering through the lonely hell of solitary, Browder had been violently attacked by fellow prisoners and corrections officers throughout his incarceration. Consumed with depression, Browder committed suicide in 2015. He was just 22 years old. In Life and Death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters, the former chief medical officer for New York City's jails, explains the profound health risks associated with incarceration. From neglect and sexual abuse to blocked access to care and exposure to brutality, Venters details how jails are designed and run to create new health risks for prisoners all while forcing doctors and nurses into complicity or silence. Pairing prisoner experiences with cutting-edge research into prison risk, Venters reveals the disproportionate extent to which the health risks of jail are meted out to those with behavioral health problems and people of color. He also presents compelling data on alternative strategies that can reduce health risks. This revelatory and groundbreaking book concludes with the author's analysis of the case for closing Rikers Island jails and his advice on how to do it for the good of the incarcerated
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 188 pages)
- Contents
-
- Dying in jail : Carlos Mercado and Angel Ramirez
- Injury and violence
- Solitary confinement
- Serious mental illness in jail
- Human rights and correctional health
- Race : Keleif Browder
- Sexual assault on Rikers : Maria and Brianna
- Correctional health
- Transparency and governance
- What to do with Rikers
- Isbn
- 9781421427362
- Label
- Life and death in Rikers Island
- Title
- Life and death in Rikers Island
- Statement of responsibility
- Homer Venters
- Subject
-
- Electronic books
- Health Risk Behaviors
- Health Status
- Human Rights Abuses
- Jails
- Jails -- New York (State) | New York
- New York (N.Y.), Department of Correction
- New York (N.Y.), Department of Correction
- New York (State) -- New York
- New York City
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- Prisoners
- Prisoners -- Health and hygiene
- Prisoners -- Health and hygiene -- New York (State) | New York
- Prisoners -- Medical care
- Prisoners -- Medical care -- New York (State) | New York
- Prisons
- Public health
- Public health -- New York (State) | New York
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
- Delivery of Health Care
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Kalief Browder was 16 when he was arrested in the Bronx for allegedly stealing a backpack. Unable to raise bail and unwilling to plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit, Browder spent three years in New York's infamous Rikers Island jail "two in solitary confinement"while awaiting trial. After his case was dismissed in 2013, Browder returned to his family, haunted by his ordeal. Suffering through the lonely hell of solitary, Browder had been violently attacked by fellow prisoners and corrections officers throughout his incarceration. Consumed with depression, Browder committed suicide in 2015. He was just 22 years old. In Life and Death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters, the former chief medical officer for New York City's jails, explains the profound health risks associated with incarceration. From neglect and sexual abuse to blocked access to care and exposure to brutality, Venters details how jails are designed and run to create new health risks for prisoners all while forcing doctors and nurses into complicity or silence. Pairing prisoner experiences with cutting-edge research into prison risk, Venters reveals the disproportionate extent to which the health risks of jail are meted out to those with behavioral health problems and people of color. He also presents compelling data on alternative strategies that can reduce health risks. This revelatory and groundbreaking book concludes with the author's analysis of the case for closing Rikers Island jails and his advice on how to do it for the good of the incarcerated
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Venters, Homer
- Dewey number
- 362.109747/1
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA448.N5
- LC item number
- V46 2019eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WA 300 AN7
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- New York (N.Y.)
- Jails
- Public health
- Prisoners
- Prisoners
- New York (N.Y.)
- Prisons
- Delivery of Health Care
- Prisoners
- Health Status
- Health Risk Behaviors
- Human Rights Abuses
- New York City
- New York (N.Y.)
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Prisoners
- Jails
- Prisoners
- Public health
- New York (State)
- Label
- Life and death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Dying in jail : Carlos Mercado and Angel Ramirez -- Injury and violence -- Solitary confinement -- Serious mental illness in jail -- Human rights and correctional health -- Race : Keleif Browder -- Sexual assault on Rikers : Maria and Brianna -- Correctional health -- Transparency and governance -- What to do with Rikers
- Control code
- 1084727427
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 188 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781421427362
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- b202d7b9-5579-4f7f-964a-ec6fda3bc1bf
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1084727427
- Label
- Life and death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Dying in jail : Carlos Mercado and Angel Ramirez -- Injury and violence -- Solitary confinement -- Serious mental illness in jail -- Human rights and correctional health -- Race : Keleif Browder -- Sexual assault on Rikers : Maria and Brianna -- Correctional health -- Transparency and governance -- What to do with Rikers
- Control code
- 1084727427
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 188 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781421427362
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- b202d7b9-5579-4f7f-964a-ec6fda3bc1bf
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1084727427
Subject
- Electronic books
- Health Risk Behaviors
- Health Status
- Human Rights Abuses
- Jails
- Jails -- New York (State) | New York
- New York (N.Y.), Department of Correction
- New York (N.Y.), Department of Correction
- New York (State) -- New York
- New York City
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- Prisoners
- Prisoners -- Health and hygiene
- Prisoners -- Health and hygiene -- New York (State) | New York
- Prisoners -- Medical care
- Prisoners -- Medical care -- New York (State) | New York
- Prisons
- Public health
- Public health -- New York (State) | New York
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
- Delivery of Health Care
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