Public Health and the Epidemic of Incarceration:
An Intersectional Analysis
Hosted by the Beazley Institute for Health Law & Policy,
Civitas ChildLaw Center, and the Curt and Linda Rodin Center for Social Justice
*RESCHEDULED FROM OCTOBER 21, 2022*
This panel engages participants in a critical intersectional analysis of legal causes and responses to mass incarceration. Criminalized Black women and girls experience significant health harms and a myriad of structural, community, and interpersonal barriers, yet there remains an under-examination of the inequities they face coupled with targeted interventions and reforms. Utilizing a continuum-based framework of mass incarceration—as a health-harming system—panelists will expose how laws, policies, and practices before, during, and after confinement compound racialized and gendered health vulnerabilities, risks, and outcomes. Panelists will draw on research centering the experiences of Black women and girls in such areas as: 1) disparities in social-structural pathways that drive entry into the carceral system, 2) lack of gender-responsive health care during confinement, 3) educational barriers during and following release, and 4) qualitative analysis of formerly incarcerated Black women’s experiences with health and reentry. To promote systems-level change, participants will discuss how public health and health law professors can engage to elevate the importance of more robust and intersectional public health law interventions within the larger carceral reform movement.
This program has been approved by the Illinois MCLE Board for 1.5 hours of general Continuing Legal Education (CLE)credit.
When February 10 - 11, 2023
This Event is closed at this time.
Site close date: 3/10/2023
If you have any questions contact Grace Pyatt by email at
