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Dying inside : the HIV/AIDS ward at Limestone prison / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner with Carla Crowder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin, 1970-
- Series:
- Law, meaning, and violence.
- Law, meaning, and violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--Medical care--Alabama.
- Prisoners.
- Prisoners--Health and hygiene--Alabama.
- AIDS (Disease)--United States.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Prisons--Alabama.
- Prisons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A graphic exposé of the inhumane treatment of HIV-positive inmates in U.S. prisons.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-225) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-42258-8
- 9786612422584
- 0-472-02194-X
- OCLC:
- 743199377
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