Biography
Jean G. Ford is a Haitian-born physician who graduated from Columbia University’s medical school in May 1984 and trained in internal medicine at Harlem Hospital. He organized against apartheid and police brutality through the Sunrise Collective and the Mobilization Committee Against Police Brutality. Ford was confined at the Metropolitan Correctional Center from January 28 to July 26, 1985 after refusing to testify before the grand jury investigating the New York 8+, citing spousal privilege and his opposition to political intelligence gathering. He later directed the Harlem Lung Center and held senior academic and hospital leadership posts.
Identified portrait and original custody record
The portrait is the named social-preview photograph supplied by Jean G. Ford's own professional about.me profile, reproduced as supplied without retouching. His profile identifies Columbia medical education and prior practice at Harlem Hospital. His own Cake résumé specifies a Columbia medical degree completed in May 1984. These distinctive education and career details match the physician identified in the original 1985 court opinion; the photograph is not assigned merely from a similar name or appearance. No photographer credit or image date is supplied by the source. Portrait source and professional profile; Self-published education and career record.
Matter of Ford, 615 F. Supp. 259 (S.D.N.Y. 1985), describes the Columbia May 1984 graduate and Harlem Hospital resident, identifies January 28, 1985 as the start of confinement at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, and orders release on July 26, 1985. Those existing custody dates are retained. January 24 was his appearance and refusal to answer questions before the grand jury, not a separately documented police-arrest day. The confinement was civil contempt, not conviction on the New York 8 defendants' criminal charges. Original court opinion.
