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PH and The carceral state - Coggle Diagram
PH and The carceral state
what is carceral state
the policing, monitoring, surveillance, criminalization, and incarceration of people
particular mode of organizing, distributing, and justifying government power
prison industrial complex
prison (min, medium, and high security)
state
psychiatric
federal
private correctional institutions
jail
juvenile detention centers
prison industrial complex (PIC)
overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, soical, and political problems
seen as a solution in our system, when it is quite flawed
prioritizes financial gain over rehabilitating those that have been imprisoned
rapid expansion of inmate population for the profit of private prison companies and businesses
private prisons
ran and owned by corporations with contract with federal or state governments
houses citizens convicted of crimes or immigrant detainess being processed for deportation
US one of the limited countries that let prvate companies own prisons
profit motives and lack of oversight---> problematic
The carceral state and health
the criminal justice system, especially incarceration, directly shapes population health
health consequences and issues of structural racism and instituional violences
health is socially produced
directly impacts Black and brown marginalized groups
chronic stress
"voluntary" sterilization
incarceration contributes to health inequality