The Effects of Incarceration and Reentry on Community Health and Well-Being Proceedings of a Workshop (2020) / Chapter Skim
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. The high rate of incarceration in the United States is a major contributor to the nation's health inequities.
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As presented by Jim Parsons, June 6, 2018. As part of its commitment to hold workshops in parts of the United States that are particularly affected by the issues being discussed, the roundtable held the workshop at the University of Pennsylvania in P hiladelphia, which has one of the highest rates of incarceration of any major American city.
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Chapter 6 presents promising practices and models that can help individuals and communities deal with the challenges of reentry. Chapter 7 summarizes the remarks at the workshop of Philadelphia's district attorney, who has been working to ameliorate what he termed "the twin evils of mass incarceration and mass supervision." Finally, Chapter 8 provides reflections from several roundtable members on important lessons that emerged from the workshop.
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