According to the NYC Department of Juvenile Justice, the incarceration rate of East Harlem is almost 3 times higher than the Manhattan rate and the assault rate is of East Harlem is more than twice the citywide rate
According to the mapping center, in East Harlem, 1 in every 20 males has been to prison and a large portion of the convicts will come back to the same swath of East Harlem between third and park avenue. In order to keep East Harlem lawbreakers imprisoned, the state spent more than $3.5 million annually. The United states spend over 80 billion on incarceration each year. People who are incarcerated have higher rates of mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction and others health conditions that need to address and solve.
Unfortunately, the criminal justice system works only to manage offenders without managing them as people and looking at the different factors that lead to their violent behavior. Mass incarceration not only affects negatively the health of the individual(inmates) but the community. Plus, the incarceration-related policy has an impact on well-being. I- what is mass incarceration? According to Michelle Alexander author of the New Jim Crow, “ Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control. …show more content…
It is the process by which people are swept into the criminal justice system, branded criminals and felons, locked up for longer periods of time than most other countries in the world who incarcerate people who have been convicted of crimes, and then released into a permanent second-class status in which they are stripped of basic civil and human rights, like the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to public benefits.” II- Socio-ecological model At the individual level In the correctional setting, individuals are faced with a number of circumstances, each of which affects health. In prison, individuals are deprived of rights and possession., heterosexual relationships and everything else considered free individual have. Prison also decrease the person 's sense of self worth which can lead to mental and social harm that can disempower them. plus, the prison code encourages to be extremely masculine to survive and show other inmates that they are strong but once the individual is release, this could be an issue because may experience some issues coping with normal society. Plus this can lead to re incarceration in case they cannot control themselves. Furthermore, the prisons conditions such as poor ventilation, overcrowding lead isolation, morbidity and mortality. In addition, there is a lack of comprehensible programs and discharge planning. At the community level The health impacts of imprisonment do not end after discharge, they are aggravated by the post discharge experience, which regularly incorporate the …show more content…
These factors can affect the health of the residents especially if they are lacking the resources necessary to take good care of their health. Chronic anxiety, fear of a community is caused by racial profiling which is the result of a bias-based policing. This can also affect the individual living in the community. Economic stress can also lead to mental health high blood pressure which highly affect the resident of East Harlem. Mass incarceration is allowed but certain policies and these policies disrupt families, create dysfunctional homes, and create barriers to access the resources that are available in the
According to the mapping center, in East Harlem, 1 in every 20 males has been to prison and a large portion of the convicts will come back to the same swath of East Harlem between third and park avenue. In order to keep East Harlem lawbreakers imprisoned, the state spent more than $3.5 million annually. The United states spend over 80 billion on incarceration each year. People who are incarcerated have higher rates of mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction and others health conditions that need to address and solve.
Unfortunately, the criminal justice system works only to manage offenders without managing them as people and looking at the different factors that lead to their violent behavior. Mass incarceration not only affects negatively the health of the individual(inmates) but the community. Plus, the incarceration-related policy has an impact on well-being. I- what is mass incarceration? According to Michelle Alexander author of the New Jim Crow, “ Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control. …show more content…
It is the process by which people are swept into the criminal justice system, branded criminals and felons, locked up for longer periods of time than most other countries in the world who incarcerate people who have been convicted of crimes, and then released into a permanent second-class status in which they are stripped of basic civil and human rights, like the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to public benefits.” II- Socio-ecological model At the individual level In the correctional setting, individuals are faced with a number of circumstances, each of which affects health. In prison, individuals are deprived of rights and possession., heterosexual relationships and everything else considered free individual have. Prison also decrease the person 's sense of self worth which can lead to mental and social harm that can disempower them. plus, the prison code encourages to be extremely masculine to survive and show other inmates that they are strong but once the individual is release, this could be an issue because may experience some issues coping with normal society. Plus this can lead to re incarceration in case they cannot control themselves. Furthermore, the prisons conditions such as poor ventilation, overcrowding lead isolation, morbidity and mortality. In addition, there is a lack of comprehensible programs and discharge planning. At the community level The health impacts of imprisonment do not end after discharge, they are aggravated by the post discharge experience, which regularly incorporate the …show more content…
These factors can affect the health of the residents especially if they are lacking the resources necessary to take good care of their health. Chronic anxiety, fear of a community is caused by racial profiling which is the result of a bias-based policing. This can also affect the individual living in the community. Economic stress can also lead to mental health high blood pressure which highly affect the resident of East Harlem. Mass incarceration is allowed but certain policies and these policies disrupt families, create dysfunctional homes, and create barriers to access the resources that are available in the