the case of scott ortiz a clash between criminal justice and public health斯科特·奥尔蒂斯的刑事司法和公共健康之间的冲突.pdf

Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Case Report Open Access The case of Scott Ortiz: a clash between criminal justice and public health 1 2 2 3 Homer D Venters* , Asiya M Razvi , Maria S Tobia and Ernest Drucker Address: 1Montefiore Medical Center, CHCC Clinic 305 E. 161st St., Bronx N.Y. 10451, USA, 2Bronx Defenders 860 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx, N.Y. 10451, USA and 3Montefiore Medical Center Department of Social and Family Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue – Suite 100, Bronx NY, 10461, USA Email: Homer D Venters* - hventers@; Asiya M Razvi - asiyar@; Maria S Tobia - mariat@; Ernest Drucker - emdrucker@ * Corresponding author Published: 24 July 2006 Received: 12 June 2006 Accepted: 24 July 2006 Harm Reduction Journal 2006, 3:21 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-3-21 This article is available from: /content/3/1/21 © 2006 Venters et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The criminal justice system creates particular challenges for persons with HIV and Hepatitis C, many of whom have a history of injection drug use. The case of Scott Ortiz, taken from public trial and sentencing transcripts, reveals the manner in which incarceration may d