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Dying inside : the HIV/AIDS ward at Limestone prison /

"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 thro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin, 1970-
Otros Autores: Crowder, Carla
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008.
Colección:Law, meaning, and violence.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.