The Critical Roles of Mental, Physical, and Financial Health for Reentry and Desistance

prisonHEALTH External Speaker (December 2020)

Nate Link, PhD, Rutgers University, USA

"The Critical Roles of Mental, Physical, and Financial Health for Reentry and Desistance”

‘Prisons, Health and Societies’ is a new, multidisciplinary research group which exists to encourage high quality scholarship, engagement and knowledge transfer regarding all aspects of mental and physical health, in and around prisons and detention sites. The prisonHEALTH arm is co-directed by Dr Philippa Tomczak and Dr Catherine Appleton. Developing our flourishing series of internal seminars, we warmly welcomed our first external speaker Dr Nate Link from Rutgers University, USA on the 2 December 2020, who presented his paper “The Critical Roles of Mental, Physical, and Financial Health for Reentry and Desistance”.

Nate Link researches issues in corrections and sentencing, including financial sanctions and debt, prisoner reentry and desistance, and mental/physical health. Nate’s research has been funded by the National Institute of Justice and Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation). Currently, he is a co-PI for the Community Corrections Fines and Fees Study – a four-year study of monetary sanctions and their consequences across seven states in the USA.

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