#279
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:30:29 -0800
From: Mark Fulop <markfulop@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: What are the implications of Incarceration
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I know that this came out last week but if there is ever a statistic to make us stop dead in our tracks it is one that suggests "For the first time in history more than one in every 100 adults in America are in jail or prison"
see: http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=35912
What are the public health implications of such an incarceration rate? What should we as health educators be doing about this?
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#280
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:53:10 -0500
From: Susan Massad <smassad@FRC.MASS.EDU>
Subject: Re: What are the implications of Incarceration
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Good question Mark. Massachusetts spends 98 cents on corrections for every
$1 for Higher Ed. To quote our college President: "our public policy is to rob from the schoolhouse to pay for the jailhouse!"
Susan Massad, HSD, RD
Associate Professor
Department of Consumer Sciences
Framingham State College
100 State St.
Framingham, MA 01701
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#281
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:22:58 -0600
From: Jeff Hallam <jhallam@OLEMISS.EDU>
Subject: Re: What are the implications of Incarceration
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99 in 100 adults are not behind bars. What are health educators doing about that?
Jeffrey S. Hallam, PhD
Associate Professor
Health, Exercise Science and Recreation Management The University of Mississippi PO BOX 1848
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#282
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:33:52 -0500
From: Lynn Rosenbaum <lynnrosenbaum@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Re: HEDIR-L Digest - 29 Feb 2008 to 2 Mar 2008 (#2008-55)
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Please remove me from this list.
thank you,
Lynn Rosenbaum
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#283
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:23:14 -0800
From: William Cissell <cissellguill@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Health Educators Working with Both the Incarcerated and the Non-incarcerated
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Mark asked if we see a public health problem, based on the published statistic that one in each 100 members of the US population is incarcerated. Jeff shifted the question to focus to what health educators are doing for the 99 of each 100 who are not incarcerated. I will respond to Jeff's question first. As a health educator, who was a trained in a school of public health at the master level, I did much to address health education needs of both those incarcerated and those not incarcerated over my career. Many of my colleagues did more; many of them continue to do more.
Many of the incarcerated have better health and medical care than many of those not incarcerated and without medical insurance. While I directed an AIDS education and training center and while I guided a state-wide needs assessment project for those living with HIV and AIDS, I helped develop knowledge about the needs and care of persons living with HIV and AIDS throughout Texas and Oklahoma were receiving both within jails and prisons and in the general population. I learned that, while there are serious flaws in the medical care systems serving both the incarcerated and those not incarcerated, those incarcerated have a more comprehensive pattern of medical care than those not incarcerated.
As a university professor, I helped prepare thousands of health educators to promote health in all setttings in which health educators practice. Through my work in professional societies of health educators, I became acquainted with tens of thousands of health educators and public health professionals who work diligently to promote the health of the populations within the USA. While the health care system in our country is highly flawed, I do not fault health educators and other public health professionals for this. Most of the public health professionals, including health educators, with whom I am acquainted have done their best to promote the health of populations throughout our country and I am confident those who continue in the active ranks of our profession will continue to do so.
Getting back to Marks question about the challenge to public health professionals of having one in every 100 members of our population incarerated, This is a problem. While those engaged in providing medical and public health services to the incarcerated often do commendable work, the environment within jails and prisons tend to stimulate antisocial behavior. In many cases, prisoners function within a violent environment that tends to stimulate additional violence. Ideally, our society could find ways to socialize individuals at high risk to commit the crimes that lead to incarceration so that they would avoid the lifestyles that lead to criminal behavior. This means providing them with desire and opportunities to succeed in activities and programs that benefit both them and society. Public health professionals need the assistance and collaboration of public policy and social development professionals and agencies to develop the activities and programs needed yo accomplish this. Public helath professionals cannot do it alone, and would be unwise to take responsibility to accomplish it without the help of public policy and social development professionals and agencies.
Bill Cissell
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