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Alan Berkman, 63, Activist Doctor, Dies

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Alan Berkman, 63, Activist Doctor, Dies By DENNIS HEVESI- Tne New York Times Published: June 14, 2009 Physician, fugitive, federal prisoner, clinician to the homeless, advocate for AIDS patients. epidemiologist: That was the arc of Alan Berkman?s career. Dr. Berkman in 1985, accused of armed robbery and possessing explosives. Dr. Berkman, a Vietnam-era radical who spent eight years in prison for armed robbery and possession of explosives and who later founded Health GAP ? a leader in the coalition that helped make AIDS medication available to millions in the world?s poorest countries ? died in Manhattan on June 5. He was 63 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was cancer, with which he had struggled for nearly 20 years, said his wife, Dr. Barbara Zeller...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).