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Author Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin, 1970-

Title Dying inside : the HIV/AIDS ward at Limestone prison / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner with Carla Crowder
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 238 pages)
Series Law, meaning, and violence
Law, meaning, and violence.
Contents 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Prisoners -- Medical care -- Alabama -- Limestone County
Prisoners -- Health and hygiene -- Alabama -- Limestone County
AIDS (Disease) -- United States
Prisons -- Alabama -- Limestone County
AIDS (Disease)
HIV infections.
Prisons.
Jails.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
Prisoners
Prisons
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Jails
HIV infections
AIDS (Disease)
Prisoners -- Health and hygiene
Prisoners -- Medical care
Prisons
SUBJECT Alabama
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject Alabama -- Limestone County
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Crowder, Carla.
ISBN 9780472021949
047202194X
1282422588
9781282422582
9786612422584
6612422580