Social Inequities in Full Effect
The experience of Jamie and Gladys Scott proves that race, gender, income and geography play a major part in determining health and wellbeing. The African American sisters who were released from a Mississippi prison in January after spending 16 years of their life sentence for an armed robbery conviction are in bad shape. The list of their socially-induced pathologies is long – double-life sentences for each; kidney failure; obesity; lack of access to needed health care; single, early parenthood; family destabilization; low education attainment; and so on. Being poor, black, and female in the Deep South didn’t work out well for the Scott sisters. Let’s keep pushing for social justice.
Highlighted Clip for Friday, February 25, 2011:
"Ex-convict sisters too overweight to share kidney"By Melissa Nelson and Holbrook Mohr
A proposed kidney transplant that won two Mississippi sisters their freedom from prison can't take place until one quits smoking and they lose a combined 160 pounds.
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