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COSI (Conversations on Social Issues)

Most Thursdays at noon; Virtually on Zoom (unless otherwise noted)

Recommended Web Sites

Prison Health Care: Costs and Quality
From The Pew Charitable Trusts
Inside The Nation’s Overdose Crisis in Prisons and Jails
From the Marshall Project
Vera Institute of Justice
From their website: Vera is powered by hundreds of advocates, researchers, and activists working to transform the criminal legal and immigration systems until they’re fair for all. Founded in 1961 to advocate for alternatives to money bail in New York City, Vera is now a national organization that partners with impacted communities and government leaders for change. We develop just, antiracist solutions so that money doesn’t determine freedom; fewer people are in jails, prisons, and immigration detention; and everyone in the system is treated with dignity.
DOJ Statistics
Not911 (Alternatives to Calling 911)
This site has various alternatives to calling 911 in the Seattle, WA area.

Note: All resources listed are available 24 hours a day unless otherwise noted.

Recommended Reading

Structural Approaches in Public Health by Marni Sommer (Editor); Richard Parker (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
Print book @ Health Education Center Library
Insane: America's criminal treatment of mental illness by Alisa Roth
ISBN: 9780465094196
Publication Date: 2018
Print book @ Seattle Central College library.
Decarcerating America: from mass punishment to public health by Ernest Drucker (Editor)
ISBN: 9781620972786
Publication Date: 2018
Print book @ Seattle Central College library.
Health and Health Promotion in Prisons by Michael Ross
Publication Date: 2012
ebook
Harm Reduction: public health strategies by Barbara Krasner (Editor)
ISBN: 9781534504134
Publication Date: 2018
Print book @ North Seattle College. Can be requested and sent to other district library locations.
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: the policing of women's reproduction in America by Jeanne Flavin
Publication Date: 2008
Print book @ Seattle Central College library.
The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Publication Date: 2010-01-05
Print book available at all three colleges.

Today's Conversation

Today's Conversation
Session Recording

The Intersections of Policing and Healthcare

Presented by Adeyinka Adedipe, MD

The recording for this session is embedded below.

Watch videos of past conversations on our YouTube channel.

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