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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin, 1970-
Other Authors: Crowder, Carla
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008.
Series:Law, meaning, and violence.
Subjects:
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
Prisonniers > Soins médicaux > Alabama > Limestone.
Sida > États-Unis.
Prisons > Alabama > Limestone.
Sida.
Infections à VIH.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Prisoners > Health and hygiene.
Prisoners > Medical care.
Alabama
United States
Alabama > Limestone County.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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