Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 238 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
047202194X
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0472114298
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9780472021949
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9780472114290
Series Statement:
Law, meaning, and violence
Content:
"Dying Inside brings the reader face-to-face with the nightmarish conditions inside Limestone Prison's Dorm 16 -- the segregated HIV ward. Here, patients chained to beds share their space with insects and vermin in the filthy, drafty rooms, and contagious diseases spread like wildfire through a population with untreated -- or poorly managed at best -- HIV. While Dorm 16 is a particularly horrific human rights tragedy, it is also a symptom of a disease afflicting the entire U.S. prison system. In recent decades, prison populations have exploded as Americans made mass incarceration the solution to crime, drugs, and other social problems even as privatization of prison services, especially health care, resulted in an overcrowded, underfunded system in which the most marginalized members of our society slowly wither from what the author calls "lethal abandonment." This eye-opening account of one prison's failed health-care standards is a wake-up call, asking us to examine how we treat our forgotten citizens and compelling us to rethink the American prison system in this increasingly punitive age."--Jacket
Content:
Penal health care in contemporary American society -- The conflicting imperatives of mass incarceration and prisoner health -- The conditions that produce catastrophic penal institutions -- Courts, legal change, and institutional struggle -- The challenges of Leatherwood -- Normalizing catastrophic loss of life
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780472114290
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0472114298
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin, 1970- Dying inside Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008
Language:
English
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