The 22nd Annual Walter C. Reckless-Simon Dinitz Memorial Lecture

“The Public Health Consequences of the New Jim Crow”



“The Public Health Consequences of the New Jim Crow”
Thursday, April 21, 2011, 6:30 pm
The Barrister Club
25 W. 11th Avenue

Abstract
The U.S. penal system is increasingly being cast as an engine for reinstituting Jim Crow, that 19th century condition of near slavery for southern Blacks. In this view, the large numbers of men of color who are behind bars or on parole in this country involve more than just "folks who've been sent away." Men and women returning from a period of incarceration are creating a large and growing American underclass. Their marginal status in their communities has public health consequences that are particularly problematic for our national HIV/AIDS pandemic. This lecture will explore these consequences and will propose a set of interventions that would improve the health status of men caught up in this nation's system of mass incarceration. There will be a reception before and after the lecture.