Health issues of incarcerated women in the United States

Mignon, Sylvia I.

doi:10.1590/1413-81232015217.05302016

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“…O sistema penitenciário brasileiro é regido por meio da Lei de Execução Penal (LEP), n° 7210, de 11 de julho de 1984 (1) , dentre os direitos das reeducandas é previsto melhores condições de vida dentro das penitenciárias, principalmente em relação à saúde das pessoas privadas da liberdade, situação essa que contradiz com o cenário atual, em que há falta de projetos de ressocialização, precariedade e insalubridade dos ambientes prisionais, tornandoos propensos à proliferação de microrganismos patogênicos, além da superlotação desses ambientes, que é cada vez mais frequente -no Brasil e em demais países, como Colômbia, Estados Unidos, América Latina e Caribe (1)(2)(3) -e prejudicial, tanto em relação ao aspecto social quanto ao pessoal. (4) Segundo o Departamento de Monitoramento e Fiscalização do Sistema Carcerário e do Sistema de Execução de Medidas Socioeducativas (DMF), através do Novo Diagnóstico de Pessoas Presas no Brasil, o país ocupa o terceiro lugar no ranking mundial de população carcerária (711.463 detentos), ficando atrás apenas dos Estados Unidos e da China.…”

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“…Sendo assim, esse grupo se torna ainda mais vulnerável ao encarceramento, coadjuvado pelas relações de poder homem-mulher e consequente exclusão dessa massa. (3,7) Mediante tais constatações e havendo a necessidade de uma investigação atualizada do perfil da população carcerária feminina, tornou-se fundamental a discussão sobre essa realidade que diariamente as mulheres vivenciam ao encontrarem na criminalidade o caminho para a redução das desigualdades sociais e acesso aos bens e serviços das quais é privada. No entanto essa busca em sua maioria termina com o aprisionamento, que resulta no distanciamento de seus filhos, abandono do companheiro e familiares e culmina com maior exclusão social, após o processo de ressocialização.…”

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Perfil epidemiológico e prisional das detentas de um município do médio norte de Mato Grosso

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Mariano

Silva

et al. 2018

Semin. Cienc. Biol. Saude

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Objetivou-se apresentar o perfil de mulheres privadas de liberdade em uma cadeia pública da região médio de Mato Grosso. Trata-se de uma pesquisa do tipo transversal, com abordagem quantitativa realizada em 2017. Foi realizada aplicação de formulário semiestruturado contendo perguntas abertas e fechadas com as 57 mulheres, sendo as mesmas entrevistadas individualmente; posteriormente os dados foram sistematizados em planilhas eletrônicas e analisados pelo SPSS versão 20.0. O perfil predominante foi de participantes autodeclaradas pardas (73,7%), com faixa etária entre 18 e 31 anos (56,2%), ensino fundamental incompleto (56,2%), donas de casa (38,6%), solteiras (47,4%), com até 4 filhos (82,5%), detidas pelo crime de tráfico de drogas (54,4%) e com período de reclusão de até dois anos (82,5%). O perfil aqui descrito reflete a relação entre a população com maior fragilidade socioeconômica, a inserção no crime através do parceiro e o tráfico de drogas como busca de renda. Neste sentido faz-se necessário a elaboração de políticas públicas intersetoriais que possibilitem a redução das desigualdades sociais, de gênero e a inserção das mulheres desde a infância em ambientes que potencializem sua qualidade de vida. ARTIGOS / ARTICLES CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS E DA SAÚDEPalavras chave: Epidemiologia. Mulheres. Prisões.The objective of this study was to present the profile of women deprived of their liberty in a public chain in the middle region of Mato Grosso. This was a cross-sectional survey with a quantitative approach carried out in 2017. A semi-structured questionnaire containing open and closed questions was applied to 57 women with individual interviews, later the data systematized in electronic spreadsheets and analyzed by the SPSS version 20.0. The predominant profile self-reported by the participants was brown (73.7%), aged between 18 and 31 (56.2%), incomplete elementary school (56.2%), housewives (38.6%), (47.4%), with up to 4 children (82.5%), arrested for the crime of drug trafficking (54.4%) and with imprisonment for up to two years (82.5%). The profile described reflects the relationship between the population with greater socioeconomic fragility, insertion in crime through the partner and drug trafficking as a search for income. In this sense is necessary the elaboration of intersectional public policies that allow the reduction of social and gender inequalities and the insertion of women since their childhood in environments that enhance the quality of life. Resumo

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Perfil epidemiológico e prisional das detentas de um município do médio norte de Mato Grosso

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Mariano

Silva

et al. 2018

Semin. Cienc. Biol. Saude

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“…They represent the fastest growing population in the criminal justice system and account for an increasing proportion of newly diagnosed HIV cases (Maruschak, 2015;Subramanian, Henrichson, & Kang-Brown, 2015). Women living with HIV who are incarcerated are also more likely to suffer from substance use, depression and to be victims of past physical and sexual abuse (Mignon, 2016). Criminal justiceinvolved women are also more likely to be frequent ED utilizers than males (Meyer et al, 2013).…”

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Emergency department utilization by people living with HIV released from jail in the US South

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Rich

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Health Justice

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Background: Incarceration is disruptive to HIV care, often resulting in poor retention in care for people living with HIV (PLWH) after jail release. This gap in HIV care might result in potentially preventable emergency department (ED) utilization. We analyzed demographic, incarceration, socioeconomic and clinical data for PLWH released from the Dallas County Jail to the community (1450 incarcerations, 1155 unique individuals) between January 2011 and November 2013. Results: The study population consisted of predominantly men (77%), with a mean age of 39 years, 67% were black and 14% were Hispanic; half of the releasees visited the ED at least once during the first-year post-jail. In adjusted analyses, female gender, family awareness of HIV status, serious mental illness, and late engagement to HIV care were significantly associated with higher ED utilization. Compared to the general Dallas population, PLWH released from jail had a 5-fold higher proportion of ED visits classified as related to substance use or mental health. Conclusions: Further efforts are needed to improve the transition from incarceration to community-based HIV care, substance use disorder treatment and mental health services, and to directly address re-engagement in HIV care for out-of-care PLWH who visit the ED.

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“…Issues related to the health care of women in prisons have been largely overlooked in the research. In general, criminology literature has ignored the health effects of living in correctional facilities and the failure of services to meet the needs of justice-involved women (Bronson & Sufrin, 2019 ; Mignon, 2016 ). Nevertheless, scholars have shown that incarceration may exacerbate women’s health by adding more stress to their lives (Aday, Dye, & Kaiser, 2014 ), and limiting access to quality medical and dental care (Douglas, Plugge, & Fitzpatrick, 2009 ), leading to a call for greater consideration of gendered health factors.…”

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Exploring the promise of intersectionality for promoting justice-involved women’s health research and policy

Gueta

2020

Health Justice

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The perspective of intersectionality has gained widespread scholarly interest and been employed across many different disciplines, including criminology. This perspective focuses on interlocking systems of oppression and the need to work toward structural changes to promote social justice and equity. The present article aimed to explore the potential of intersectionality for advancing health research and policy regarding justice-involved women, in different phases of the judicial process, based on the extant literature. First, employing an intersectional approach to analyze the issue of health during the pre-incarceration period may facilitate identification of the structural and representational factors underlying the barriers that women face in obtaining health services, which elevates the risk to their health. Furthermore, adopting an intersectionality perspective to explore women's health during incarceration may shed light on vulnerable, invisible subpopulations of women such as incarcerated older women and their health problems, and help identify the structural barriers to carceral health services and the role of stigma in inflicting and normalizing harmful practices within prison walls. In addition, an intersectionality lens highlights the risk of unintended use of scholarly knowledge regarding the health of justice-involved women. Last, an intersectionality perspective is particularly relevant for research of the reentry of justice-involved women. In particular, it can be used to examine gender-sensitive reentry services that ignore other axes of marginalization, such as class and race, generating a powerful dynamic that results in partial service, denial of access to therapeutic resources, and possible exposure to health-damaging environments. Through an exploration of the extant literature on justice-involved women, I endeavored to demonstrate that an intersectional framework offers powerful tools to both challenge and strengthen gender frameworks within criminology. This will make it possible to move beyond consideration of gender alone, to understand how systems of oppression based on race, age and other social locations intersect and combine to construct health disadvantages among justice-involved women. This highlights the needs for a new research agenda and policy that integrate the intersectional framework with health theories to provide a more developed understanding of health among justice-involved women.

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Health issues of incarcerated women in the United States

Abstract: Health issues of incarcerated women in the United States A questão da saúde nas mulheres encarceradas nos Estados Unidos

Cited by 41 publications

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Perfil epidemiológico e prisional das detentas de um município do médio norte de Mato Grosso

Perfil epidemiológico e prisional das detentas de um município do médio norte de Mato Grosso

Emergency department utilization by people living with HIV released from jail in the US South

Exploring the promise of intersectionality for promoting justice-involved women’s health research and policy

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