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Time away is time out: narratives of intentional reimprisonment amongst inmates living with HIV in a US setting.
- Source :
- Critical Public Health; Dec 2021, Vol. 31 Issue 5, p561-572, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- There is a growing effort from a range of professionals and institutions to develop comprehensive integrated prison-to-community healthcare, discharge planning, and community re-entry support for inmates living with HIV. This paper draws from ethnographic data to explore the 'lived experience' of HIV-positive inmates in a US State prison system offering an integrated case management support programme. In the US, incarceration is critical for connecting socially marginalised people and those with health needs to certain rights and resources. We present the ways in which imprisonment enables a claims-making process against the state by allowing this group access to resources and rights connected to imprisonment, healthcare, and associated social welfare support. Offenders identified incentives underpinning their expressed desire or 'intention' to return to prison over time. Our findings suggest that this group of inmates has increased opportunity to access material, medical, and welfare resources when compared to the general inmate population and those outside the prison system. Multiple gaps remain in this group's sense of security in the community, ability to cope with the stress of everyday life, sustained support with substance dependency and, most importantly, consistent access to medical and welfare resources that enable them to live independently. Ironically, for many inmates living with HIV, incarceration offers a better chance of accessing public health services than living in the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SAFETY
PRISON psychology
CORRECTIONAL institutions
SOCIAL support
HEALTH services accessibility
SOCIAL services case management
RESEARCH methodology
GROUNDED theory
INTERVIEWING
EXPERIENCE
ETHNOLOGY research
INTENTION
PUBLIC welfare
PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation
PSYCHOLOGY of HIV-positive persons
PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09581596
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Critical Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153311195
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2020.1737645