Health Promotion & Policy 590M - Mass Incarceration & PubHealth

In this course, we will examine the U.S. system of mass incarceration at the intersection of extreme rates of imprisonment; civil, health, and human rights violations; legalized discrimination; and privatization of corrections-related industries and services. Our primary goal will be to unpack and interrogate two orienting questions: What are the social structural conditions that create and maintain mass incarceration? What is the role of public health to understand, examine, and respond to mass incarceration?

This course is open to PUBHLTH Seniors and Graduate students only