Life and death in Rikers Island

Resource Information

The work Life and death in Rikers Island represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Life and death in Rikers Island

Statement of responsibility

Homer Venters

Creator

• Venters, Homer, 1967-

Author

• Venters, Homer, 1967-

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

Genre

• Electronic books

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

Member of

• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America

Cataloging source

N$T

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