Health care in carceral settings raises important ethical questions around access to care, patient autonomy and consent, clinician loyalty and conflicts of interest, public health responsibilities, and the gap between community and correctional health, among others.
On November 16, 2026, The Greenwall Foundation will host this year’s William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture, Confinement and Care: The Ethics of Health Care Behind Bars, in person in New York City and online. Homer Venters, MD, former Chief Medical Officer for the New York City jail system, will discuss the ethical dimensions of health care in carceral settings, including jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers. Dr. Venters currently serves as a court-appointed monitor of correctional health and is the author of Life and Death in Rikers Island (2019). He will be joined in conversation by Keri Blakinger, an investigative reporter at ProPublica covering federal prisons and the death penalty.
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