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PF Commentary: Inmate Health
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The Evidence for Inmate Health Programs |
Mary Reddick stands in front of a bookcase in Oklahoma’s Dr. E.W. Warrior Correctional Center and contemplates what her life could be like. She is an inmate at the facility. But she is also a trained educator in Oklahoma’s HIV Peer Education Program for Incarcerated People. And that, she claims, has made all the difference. “If it were not for the HIV group here,” she says, “I don’t think I would have the self-esteem I have in me today to go forward…If I just sat here and did my time, I would have learned nothing and gone out the same way.”
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Making Prisons Places of Healing |
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By Pat Nolan|Published Date: June 29, 2009
Kathy was a young woman serving time for drug use at Taconic Correctional Facility in New York when she began to feel sick. Suspecting she had a cold, she went to the prison clinic. The staff gave her a cold pack, which was the common response to such symptoms. Kathy’s body did not respond. Instead, she felt worse.
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Justice Fellowship's Model Reentry Policies
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Report on Violence and Abuse in Prisons |
The culture of violence that plagues so many of our prisons has terrible consequences for our society; it is harmful to inmates, staff and volunteers. And it endangers our communities when inmates return home after years in such turbulent environments. Yet, there are many prisons that maintain safe environments for inmates and staff. How can we encourage prison officials to adopt the procedures and policies that maintain order in prisons?
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