Health and the Box (pt 1)

Max discusses incarceration and health with Dr. Benjamin Howell, a physician and fellow in the national clinical scholars program at Yale. We discuss the challenges and shortcomings of U.S. healthcare and criminal justice systems, the ways in which specific conditions are criminalized and concentrated in prison settings, and the pitfalls at the intersection of health and prison. This episode is the first in a series of 3 related to health and incarceration in the U.S.