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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456629203321

Autore

Fleury-Steiner Benjamin <1970->

Titolo

Dying inside [[electronic resource] ] : the HIV/AIDS ward at Limestone prison / / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner with Carla Crowder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-42258-8

9786612422584

0-472-02194-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Law, meaning, and violence

Altri autori (Persone)

CrowderCarla

Disciplina

365/.667

Soggetti

Prisoners - Medical care - Alabama

Prisoners - Health and hygiene - Alabama

AIDS (Disease) - United States

Prisons - Alabama

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-225) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Penal Health Care in Contemporary American Society; Chapter 2. The Comflicting Imperatives of Mass Incarceration and Prisoner Health; Chapter 3. The Conditions That Produce Catastrophic Penal Institutions; Chapter 4. Courts, Legal Change, and Institutional Struggle; Chapter 5. The Challenges of Leatherwood; Chapter 6. Normalizing Catastrophic Loss of Life; Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendix A. - A Fuller Account of Methods; Appendix B. - The Institutional Lives of Catastrophic Jails and Prisons in the United States,1990-2007

Appendix C. - Prisoner Activism and Advocacy Organizations in North AmericaNotes; References; Author Index; Subject Index