AIDS In Prison Research Articles

The Fire Inside: Women Protesting AIDS in Prison since 1980

In the late twentieth century, the American prison system expanded in ways that denied women, and especially working-class and women of color, adequate medical care with regard to HIV-AIDS and their reproductive, chronic, and other illnesses. The experience of living within a racist, misogynistic, and privatized prison system shaped women's organizing on the inside, inspiring forms of mutual aid among prisoners and compelling the formation of inside–outside alliances. Activists not only addressed HIV-AIDS, but also the absence of all the healthcare that incarcerated women failed to receive. Their efforts highlight the systemic and cyclical problems diverse groups of women have faced within the HIV-AIDS epidemic in the United States, as well as women's interpersonal, organizational, and legal efforts to overcome them.

HIV and African Americans: Relationship to Cultural Competence, Implicit Bias, Social Determinants, and US Jails and Prisons

Have you ever wondered why African American women and men have the highest rate of new HIV infection in the United States? Although African Americans represent only 13.2% of the US population, African American women and men comprised an estimated 61.6% (5,128/8,328) and 40.2% (14,305/35,571) of new HIV infections, respectively. This article aims to explore this question along with proposing solutions for this national health crisis. Implementation of the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health’s 15 Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Service (CLAS) standards, adopting strategies to mitigate implicit bias, recalibrating sentencing policy for nonviolent offences, pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP for high-risk groups, addressing inequities related to social determinants of health, and implementing policies such as Congresswoman Maxine Waters’s Stop AIDS in Prison Act are keys to helping eliminate disparities in new HIV infection rates adversely impacting African Americans.

Le politiquement incorrect en psychiatrie : l’expérience d’une vie professionnelle

The author criticizes theorists show, phenomenon of “administrative ecstasy”, and dominance of political correctness against truth and scientifically established facts. He tells three professional experiences where he refuses the official position, preferring the politically incorrect: mental report, AIDS in prisons, care reform in his own prison psychiatric department.

Do prisoners in South Africa have a constitutional right to a holistic approach to antiretroviral treatment?

The prevalence of AIDS in prisons is believed to be higher than in the broader community. While the courts have used their powers to enforce prisoners’ rights in terms of the Constitution, specifically their right to medical treatment, the state needs to adopt a holistic approach when providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) for prisoners. Failing to provide support for ART, beyond its mere provision, would offend the values of the Constitution. This support includes comprehensive HIV and AIDS care and prevention, treatment of opportunistic infections, access to nutritional supplements, access to palliative care and compassionate release. Counteracting challenges to the implementation of effective treatment, care and support strategies will require committed endeavours by the Department of Correctional Services.

HIV/AIDS prisoners: a case study on quality of life in Roumieh, Lebanon

Prisons often lack the basic health services required by HIV/AIDS patients. As with many other chronic illnesses, the treatment of HIV is expensive in terms of medication, hygiene, testing and staff training. Strategies to combat the disease have been thoroughly developed, particularly in Europe (WHO/UNAIDS, 2006). The purpose of this study was to assess quality of life (QOL) of the only 5 reported cases of HIV/AIDS patients in Roumieh prison (the country's largest male top-security prison) using the WHOQOL and the WHO guidelines on HIV infection and AIDS in prison. Virtually all prisoners reported that their rights had been violated. Isolation measures were taken to prevent the spread of the disease. According to UNAIDS, this particular measure has been proven ineffective. In conclusion, other approaches should be implemented to respect inmates' rights and reduce transmission of the virus.

Incidence of AIDS cases in Spanish penal facilities through the capture-recapture method, 2000

Three available sources of information used in the surveillance of AIDS in Spanish prisons were used to carry out a capture-recapture study. Results showed the register of AIDS cases (RCS) considerably underestimates the incidence of this disease in prisons as it covers only 50% of cases. This study highlights the need to use additional sources to the RCS to evaluate the real incidence of AIDS in prisons in Spain.

Fear and Loathing in the Joint: The Impact of Race and Age on Inmate Support for Prison AIDS Policies

The get tough on crime movement and the war on drugs have resulted in a changing inmate demographic in this country. More people are being incarcerated for longer periods of time. Many inmates are members of groups at high risk for AIDS, such as minorities, the young, and drug users. This article examines the current correctional AIDS policies of mandatory testing, segregation, and notification. In particular, the authors focus on inmate attitudes toward these policies and the impact of race/ethnicity and age on fear of AIDS in prison and support for AIDS policies.

The collision of confinement and care: end-of-life care in prisons and jails.

In 1997, the United States incarcerated over 1.7 million persons in local jails and in state and federal prisons. These inmates are disproportionately poor and persons of color. Many lack adequate access to health care before incarceration and present to correctional services with major unaddressed medical problems.Convictions for drug possession and use have increased the number of injection drug users with HIV and AIDS in prisons. Determinate sentencing and “three strikes and you’re out” laws have increased the number of inmates who are aging and dying during their sentences. Their feelings reflect those of Larry Rideau, sentenced to life without parole and founder of The Angolite—an award-winning prison newspaper at Louisiana's Angola Prison—“The dream of getting out, you equate with heaven. Dying in prison you equate with hell.”

Teaching and Practice

In this article, Kathy Boudin recounts her story as an inmate and literacy educator at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for women. While the standard literacy education curriculum for the facility emphasized instrumental, workbook-based reading skills, Boudin sought to make the literacy program more relevant to the women's lives and experiences. By working with the women in the literacy program, Boudin incorporated critical literacy teaching practices into the skills-based curriculum, using the subject of AIDS in prison as a means of linking the women's experiences with their acquisition of literacy skills. Although the article focuses on prison education, the women in Bedford Hills are like other women in urban communities for whom literacy is only one of many problems. Thus, the pedagogical and social issues raised here have many implications that extend beyond the prison bars.

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AIDS in Prisons and Jails

Anthropologists have made crucial contributions to the fight against AIDS, creating culturally sensitive AIDS education and prevention programs and documenting and contextualizing the experiences of those suffering with AIDS, as well as having an impact on AIDS policy formation and execution. Efforts have usually focused on the needs of groups of individuals having high prevalence rates of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, within their populations. Jail and prison inmates with HIV/AIDS, a group whose numbers are increasing at an extraordinarily rapid rate, have been overlooked. Yet this group, too, would benefit immeasurably from the input of anthropological inquiry.

A Comparative View of Aids in Prisons: Mexico and the United States

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has become a serious problem in U.S. prisons. There appear to be large numbers of infected incarcerated persons in these facilities, and they may be spreading the infection through widespread male homosexual contact. In contrast, the extent of AIDS infection among inmates in Mexican prisons is largely unknown. This paper compares and contrasts issues surrounding AIDS in Mexican and U.S. prisons, with a specific emphasis on the presence of AIDS-related policies. The findings suggest that Mexico may experience a pattern of infection among inmates similar to that in the United States. However, the spread of AIDS through homosexual activity may be reduced in Mexico by the presence of women and conjugal visits.

Sentenced to death? HIV infection and AIDS in prisons — Current and future concerns

Sentenced to death? HIV infection and AIDS in prisons — Current and future concerns

Persons With AIDS in prison: A critical and phenomenological approach to suffering

There are many structural implications which help illuminate the bureaucratic and coercive nature of the contemporary criminal justice system, especially as it deals with IV drug users who may also be infected with the AIDS virus. The link between criminal justice and achieving social order is clear, and the current “war on drugs” is reminiscent of earlier criticisms of social control. Foucault, for instance, argued that formal control of the “mad” can be interpreted as a governmental response to the growing demands for order, responsibility and restraint.51 The nation's ongoing law enforcement campaign, as is the case with other moral and political crusades, focuses primarily on those who are unpopular and unable adequately to defend themselves, especially the poverty-stricken, urban IV drug users. The “war on drugs” further represents an ideological campaign that utilizes law enforcement to attack many forms of social conduct which are perhaps better addressed as health issues (i.e., substance abuse and AIDS). Considering this, the criminal justice system functions, therefore as the main vehicle by which the demands for order, responsibility and restraint are reinforced.

AIDS in Prison: Legal Issues

Both current statutory and case law concerning AIDS in correctional institutions are discussed. The article examines the legal status of mandatory testing, the confidentiality of test results, segregating prisoners with AIDS from the rest of the prison population, adequacy of health care, and inmate assaults on correctional officers. The article emphasizes the fast-developing and changing nature of the law in all of these areas. Because many states have recently passed legislation concerning some of these issues, the authors advise corrections officials to familiarize themselves with their state statutes; the article provides examples of specific statutes. After addressing statutory law, the authors explain the various court cases that have been decided to date.

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A new weak emission band system of the SeO molecule consisting of 34 band heads degraded to shorter wavelengths has been observed for the first time in the spectral region 6730–8570 Å. The vibrational analysis of the system suggests that it arises from the transition A3Πreg-X0+, 1. All the five subsystems allowed by the selection rule ΔΩ = 0, ±1 have been identified. The constants in cm−1 derived for the A3Π state are (Here the Te values are expressed with respect to the minimum in the Ω = 0+ component of the ground electronic state X. The Te value of the A33Π2 component is estimated by using the vibrational constants of the components A1 and A2 since ΔG(12) is practically the same for all three components.) An approximate value of the rotational constant B0 of state A estimated from the separations of the observed P and Q heads and the known rotational constant of state X is = 0.470 cm−1 (for 3Π0).

On Research on HIV Infection and AIDS in Correctional Institutions

AIDS presents unique problems and opportunities in jails and prisons for epidemiological research on HIV infection and its sequelae. If correctional institutions constrain inmates' access to social benefits, means exist to protect incarcerated people's rights in health studies. A reading of federal regulations indicates that research involving prisoners should be subject to scrutiny by an institutional review board (IRB); inmates participating in IRB-approved clinical trials on AIDS-related drugs should not receive placebos alone, moreover, given that some medications are partially effective against the syndrome. As in other domains of public health and public policy, HIV infection and AIDS in prisons compel new perspectives on justice and equity.

Aids in Prison: The Social Construction of a Reality

This article consists of the presentation of ethnographic material on the creation of a reality concerning AIDS by inmates. The primaryfocus is on the examination of social discourse and how this relates to inmate understandings, beliefs, and definitions for their situation. The narrative reveals that a considerable amount of misinformation, and fractured information is employed to define their situation, and in turn, create a reality regarding AIDS in prison.

Introduction to Criminology

Barlow's Introduction to Criminology is a comprehensive introduction to crime, criminality, and societal responses from a sociological perspective. Strong coverage of historical trends is a key feature of the text, allowing students to examine recent events within a context of social change. This edition has been updated throughout with current information and examples to reflect society's changing response to criminal behavior, including new coverage of small business crime, motorcycle gangs, community policing, AIDS in prison, and the theories behind intelligence and crime and female crime.

AIDS in prison

AIDS in prison