Challenges and solutions for conducting research in correctional settings: The U.S. experience

Cislo, Andrew M.; Trestman, Robert L.

doi:10.1016/j.ijlp.2013.04.002

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“…This finding may relate to first-hand experience with the complexities involved in the conduct of research with incarcerated populations. For example, unlike HIV/AIDS research in community settings, obtaining IRB approval for HIV/AIDS research in correctional settings requires the addition of an IRB prisoner representative and documentation of other protections associated with incarcerated participants, which may slow down and complicate the review process (Cislo & Trestman, 2013). Specialized training in these topics would likely alleviate challenges faced by correctional researchers, particularly in the early stages of research, enabling them to address these considerations proactively and formulate appropriate timelines.…”

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“…Despite their potential value as venues for HIV/AIDS research, correctional settings present numerous challenges and obstacles to researchers that serve to limit such research (Cislo & Trestman, 2013; Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2006; Rich et al, 2011). Federal regulations in place for prisoners as research participants are important contributors to these challenges.…”

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HIV/AIDS Research in Correctional Settings: Perspectives on Training Needs From Researchers and IRB Members

Kondo

Johnson

Ironside

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AIDS Education and Prevention

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Being disproportionately represented by individuals living with HIV/AIDS, correctional facilities are an important venue for potentially invaluable HIV/AIDS epidemiological and intervention research. However, unique ethical, regulatory, and environmental challenges exist in these settings that have limited the amount and scope of research. We surveyed 760 HIV/AIDS researchers, and IRB chairs, members, and prisoner representatives to identify areas in which additional training might ameliorate these challenges. Most commonly identified training needs related to federal regulations, ethics (confidentiality, protection for participants/researchers, coercion, privacy, informed consent, and general ethics), and issues specific to the environment (culture of the correctional setting; general knowledge of correctional systems; and correctional environments, policies, and procedures). Bolstering availability of training on the challenges of conducting HIV/AIDS research in correctional settings is a crucial step toward increasing research that will yield significant benefits to incarcerated individuals and society as a whole.

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HIV/AIDS Research in Correctional Settings: Perspectives on Training Needs From Researchers and IRB Members

Kondo

Johnson

Ironside

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AIDS Education and Prevention

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“…It was not until the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (1978) recommended the prohibition of nearly all prisoner research, that prison institutions were held accountable for upholding standards of bioethical accountability in their treatment of incarcerated research subjects (Cislo & Trestman, 2013). Regrettably, however, for those drug-addicted inmates struggling with recovery, the majority of whom were poor men of color with scant social capital, spending years on a work farm that did little to effectively address their opiate addiction proved detrimental for their life-course trajectories and the communities to which they returned.…”

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An historical review of racial bias in prison-based substance abuse treatment design

Kerrison

2017

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

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This study leverages critical race and legal epidemiological frameworks to illustrate the race-based historical evolution of U.S. rehabilitation paradigms directed at imprisoned heroin and opioid users. What began as a racist early-20th-century federal antinarcotic trafficking effort has since assumed a state-based treatment agenda whose programmatic operations are largely based in correctional settings disproportionately reserved for poor substance abusers of color. Even in contemporary carceral facilities, where incarcerated populations are teeming with White addicts, in the aggregate, White drug abusers have been protected from the depraved, incorrigible, and inherently pathological drug-using caricature assigned to their non-White counterparts. This historical examination demonstrates how links between broader drug policy and prison-based drug treatment support a legally codified White supremacist narrative that erodes health and wellbeing for program participants of color, and the communities to which they inevitably return.

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“…The relative inaccessibility of prisons as research sites has been well documented, and a practical concern is that bureaucratic and security concerns will result in the addition of months -if not years -to a given research process if it takes place (in whole, or in part) within a prison (Cislo & Trestman, 2013;Wacquant, 2002). yet, this inaccessibility comes at a crucial point in the prison's history.…”

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Relational vulnerability and the research process with former prisoners in Athens, Georgia (USA)

Mitchelson

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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A host of power relations are structurally imposed upon the imprisoned and these produce vulnerabilities that require considerable energy and attention. This paper argues, however, that 'vulnerable populations' is a politically reactive legal category in the context of research with prisoners. In turn, this form of categorical vulnerability is often misaligned with 'actually existing vulnerability' or 'relational vulnerability' in the context of prison life. Substantive ethical, methodological and practical problems result from this misalignment, as I illustrate through the case of my research with former prisoners in Athens, Georgia. I seek to prove two claims in support of my central argument. First, actually existing vulnerability is fundamentally relational and it involves the researcher, the researched, collaborators, and (often distant) people and social structures that were not necessarily directly involved in the research process. Second, vulnerability is a spatially and temporally contingent process. The essay reviews the peculiar history by which prisoners came to be categorized as a 'vulnerable population' in the United States, in addition to recounting my first-hand experiences during the research process. Vulnérabilité relationnelle et procédé de recherche auprès d'anciens prisonniers d'Athens en Géorgie (USA)RÉSUMÉ Une grande quantité de rapports de force sont imposés structurellement à ceux qui sont emprisonnés et ces rapports produisent des vulnérabilités qui demandent une énergie et une attention considérables. Cet article soumet, toutefois, que « les populations vulnérables » forment une catégorie légale politiquement réactive dans le contexte de la recherche auprès des prisonniers. A son tour, souvent, cette forme de catégorie de vulnérabilité ne correspond pas à « la vulnérabilité réelle qui existe » ou à la « vulnérabilité relationnelle » dans le contexte de la vie en prison. Des problèmes substantiels éthiques, méthodologiques et pratiques résultent de ce décalage, comme je le démontre à travers le cas de ma recherche auprès d'anciens prisonniers d'Athens, en Géorgie. Je cherche à © 2016 informa uK limited, trading as taylor & Francis Group KEYWORDS carceral geography; relational vulnerability; vulnerable populations; imprisonment MOTS CLÉS géographie carcérale; vulnérabilité relationnelle; populations vulnérables; emprisonnement ARTICLE HISTORY

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Challenges and solutions for conducting research in correctional settings: The U.S. experience

Cited by 43 publications

References 40 publications

HIV/AIDS Research in Correctional Settings: Perspectives on Training Needs From Researchers and IRB Members

HIV/AIDS Research in Correctional Settings: Perspectives on Training Needs From Researchers and IRB Members

An historical review of racial bias in prison-based substance abuse treatment design

Relational vulnerability and the research process with former prisoners in Athens, Georgia (USA)

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