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Life on the Inside and Death on the Outside: Complexities in Health Disparities Inside and Outside U.S. Prisons

Loaded on April 15, 2013 by Evelyn J. Patterson published in Prison Legal News April, 2013, page 24
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends. Location: United States of America.
by Evelyn J. Patterson, Ph.D.

As a scholar of criminology and demography (the study of how and why populations change), I seek to contribute to the discourse on inequality through researching different issues in the demography of incarceration. One astonishing thing that I discovered some time ago was the difference …

 

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