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Returning Home: Incarceration, Reentry, Stigma and the Perpetuation of Racial and Socioeconomic Health Inequity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Elizabeth Tobin Tyler  and
Bradley Brockmann
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Abstract

This article describes overlapping links among incarceration, poor health, race, and stigma, and stigma's impact on the health of former prisoners and their families and communities. The authors include policy recommendations to reduce the impact of incarceration and stigma.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 45 , Issue 4: Stigma & Health , Winter 2017 , pp. 545 - 557
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2017

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