Medical Care In Prison
This collection contains audio and print materials related to health and medical care in prison.
Documents
HIV and Aids in prison
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: PM 280Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Medical Care In Prison
Judy Greenspan of the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project discusses the state of medical care in prisons as well as the Shumate v. Wilson class action lawsuit filed in April 1995 to address this inadequate care. An interview with Jean Stewart of the Disabled Prisoners Justice Fund also highlights the case.
Medical neglect: genocide within the PIC, Critical Resistance- Beyond the PIC
This is a 1998 taping of a workshop presented by PARC and moderated by Lauren Jones. Scott Kosa (sp?), a prison healthcare reform advocate and former prison social worker, explains causal factors in why corrective facilities hyave failed in response to HIV and healthcare and also addresses issues the PIC ignores. Pamela Africa, minister of defense of the MOVE organization, reflects on her and other MOVE members' experiences inside prison, medical neglect and deprivation. Judy Greenspan, director of PAssionate Release, uses the story of Ronnie Sappington to address the brutality of medical neglect.
Medical Neglect
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: PM 302Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: Prison Activist RadioCollection: Medical Care In Prison
Prison Activist Radio discuss the battle for medical care and healthcare rights for prisoners. Judy Greenspan, director of HIV/AIDS in Prison Project and member of California Coalition for Women Prisoners, speaks about the lack of women's healthcare in prisons, the serious medical conditions that men and women prisoners enter the system with, and the hostility of doctors, officials, and guards towards prisoners. She also discusses prisoner-activist Joanne Walker and the effective campaign for HIV/AIDS care and medical rights. Jean Stewart, from the Disabled Prisoner's Justice Fund and ADAPT discusses the abuses suffered by prisoners with disabilities. She also discusses health care issues, including the Armstrong and Shumate cases. Stewart states that the biggest problem with medical justice is the public's ignorance of people with disabilites.
Patricia Contreras Rally
California rally in support of Patricia Contreras requesting she be granted a compassionate release from prison. She is a terminally ill prisoner with AIDS and wants nothing more than to die outside of prison. Demonstrators also challenge the poor medical care given to prisoners.
Tuberculosis & prisons
Date: 11/6/1995Call Number: PM 346AFormat: Cass AProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Medical Care In Prison
Juliet Trainer, from Rx Justice, speaks about the TB epidemic occurring in prisons. Mass imprisonment spreads the disease. Infectious cases are not handled well inside; Department of Health cut back on Health Delivery Systems on March 1, 1995, even though prisons are the only place in the US where healthcare is constitutionally mandated. The health of people on the outside depends on people on the inside receiving care, especially with TB.
HIV and Women in Prison
Three prison activist talk about how the conditions of prison are hazardous to the health of imprisoned women. They speak specifically about HIV positive women and how they are not adequately care for in prisons.
Prisons Replace Hospitals for the Nations Mentally Ill
Clipping of 3/5/1998 article
Telemedicine Getting a Test in Efforts to cut Costs of Treating Prisoners
Clipping from 6/8/1998 article
A Collection of Materials on Prisoners with HIV/AIDS
Publisher: ACT UPCollection: Medical Care In Prison
A survey of literature on prisoners with HIV AIDS, with special emphasis on activism.
Dying Behind Bars
Reproduction of 2/5/1997 article.
