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2020 PROSE Awards

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Award Category: Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology
Award Level: Finalist | Award Year: 2020
Sponsoring Organization: Association of American Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division
Winner(s): Life and Death in Rikers Island by Homer Venters

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Homer Venters
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Homer Venters

Homer Venters is the former chief medical officer and assistant commissioner of Correctional Health Services for the NYC Health and Hospital System. He is currently the senior health and justice fellow at Community Oriented Correctional Health Services and an associate professor at New York University's College of Global Public Health.
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