Description: Seminar, one hour. Through intersectional approach, examination of how society views mass incarceration by looking at issue from public health lens and exploring its direct effects on people during and after incarceration, as well as downstream health effects on general public. Topics include racial origins of mass incarceration as well as its health cycle, social determinants of health, insight into health inside prisons, and effects that mass incarceration ultimately has on health of entire communities and especially formerly incarcerated. Covers future of mass incarceration, with discussion of need to reform prison system and what society's role is in this process. Includes service learning component to expose students to real world mass incarceration activism. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Vera Arenas, with Gaye Theresa Johnson as faculty mentor.

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