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Prison life, health and the problem of violence - Coggle Diagram
Prison life, health and the problem of violence
Jame Partlic - left with permanent brain damage after being attacked while in prison on a one day sentence.
Prison Health is generally looked after by state services, NSW Health as an example
SA, TAS, and ACT have contractual arrangements
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All prisoners lose their medicare entitlement and so become subject to the health services to them as prisoners. Most prisoners all come with existing heath issues.
The socio economic background, power relations and sexual activity (consensual and non consensual) are identified as contributing to major health issues in Australian prisons.
Complex High Needs
56% were overweight or obses, 54% of women and 46% of men reported having a disability or illness that impacted their health for 6 months or more. an increase of 34%
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Perspectives on prison violence - focus on what prisoners bring to and what they create out of their experience
Importation - primarily concerned with the history, penal attributes and social networks the prisoner bring to the prison
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Transactional and situational models are newly emerging, express the role of total institutional environment in producing the culture of violence in prison
Korn describes, morally bereft, that merely reinforces violent tendencies :however angry they are entering prison, many leave even angrier and it is society as a whole that bears the brunt.
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Prisonisation
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socialisation of prisoners into the norms of prison life,
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According to Clemner, prisonisation involves the
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