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| Other authors / contributors: | Crowder, Carla.
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| ISBN: | 9780472021949
047202194X
9780472114290
0472114298
1282422588
9781282422582
9786612422584
6612422580
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| Summary: | "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 through a population with untreated -- or poorly managed at best -- HIV. While Dorm 16 is a particularly horrific human rights tragedy, it is also a symptom of a disease afflicting the entire U.S. prison system. In recent decades, prison populations have exploded as Americans made mass incarceration the solution to crime, drugs, and other social problems even as privatization of prison services, especially health care, resulted in an overcrowded, underfunded system in which the most marginalized members of our society slowly wither from what the author calls "lethal abandonment." This eye-opening account of one prison's failed health-care standards is a wake-up call, asking us to examine how we treat our forgotten citizens and compelling us to rethink the American prison system in this increasingly punitive age."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin, 1970- Dying inside. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008 9780472114290
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| Standard no.: | 10.3998/mpub.17471
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