Thinking Outside the Box: Hospitals Promoting Employment for Formerly Incarcerated Persons
Authors: Zoey Thill, Marce Abare, Aaron Fox
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2014)

Ideas and Opinions7 October 2014Thinking Outside the Box: Hospitals Promoting Employment for Formerly Incarcerated PersonsZoey Thill, MD, MPP, Marce Abare, MD, MPH, and Aaron Fox, MD, MSZoey Thill, MD, MPPFrom Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.Search for more papers by this author, Marce Abare, MD, MPHFrom Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.Search for more papers by this author, and Aaron Fox, MD, MSFrom Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/M14-1674 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail While scanning the waiting area of a South Bronx clinic (Bronx, New York), the physician calls her next patient. Her eyes fall on a young man who is asleep, his ears covered with headphones. The physician draws closer, calling out his name for a second time. Jared wakes with a jolt. He is a man aged 26 years presenting for a routine preemployment physical. The catch is that he does not yet have a job. He has filled out application after application, cringing every time he has to check “the box”: “Have you ever been convicted of a crime?: [X] ...References1. Glaze LE, Herberman EJ. Correctional Populations in the United States, 2012 [Bulletin]. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice; December 2013. Accessed at www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus12.pdf on 16 July 2014. Google Scholar2. The Sentencing Project. Report of The Sentencing Project to the United Nations Human Rights Committee: Regarding Racial Disparities in the United States Criminal Justice System. Washington, DC: The Sentencing Project; 2013. 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Forms can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M14-1674.Corresponding Author: Marce Abare, MD, MPH, House Staff, Montefiore Medical Center, 111 East 210th Street, Bronx, NY 10467; e-mail, marce.[email protected]com.Current Author Addresses: Drs. Thill, Abare, and Fox: Montefiore Medical Center, 111 East 210th Street, Bronx, NY 10467.Author Contributions: Conception and design: Z. Thill, M. Abare, A. Fox.Analysis and interpretation of the data: Z. Thill.Drafting of the article: Z. Thill, M. Abare, A. Fox.Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: Z. Thill, M. Abare.Final approval of the article: Z. Thill, M. Abare, A. Fox.Provision of study materials or patients: Z. Thill.Administrative, technical, or logistic support: Z. Thill, M. Abare.Collection and assembly of data: Z. Thill. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoSesame Street Goes to Jail: Physicians Should Follow Dora M. 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