Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison

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SUBJECT INDEX 233 Abu Ghraib prison: institutional deviance at, 24, 25, 175, 176; scapegoating of “bad apples,”190n. 14. See also Institutional deviance, and decoupling of hierarchical structure ACLU National Prison Project (NPP): litigation in Alabama by, 2, 74, 75, 103, 104, 107, 108, 140, 145, 174; participation in “No Lost Causes,”203n. 25. See also HIV+ prisoner rights, and ACLU NPP’s early cases; HIV+ prisoner rights, and Judge Johnson’s Newman decision AIDS “cocktails,”as recent development in treatment for HIV, 118, 119, 122. See also Normalization of prisoner deaths; Tabet report AIDS wasting, and lack of attention to nutrition of prisoners, 20, 80, 90, 122, 135, 138. See also Normalization of prisoner deaths; Tabet report , and mortality reviews Alabama: Department of Corrections (ADOC), 16, 74, 97, 101, 112, 115, 125, 127, 131, 145; Governor’s Task Force on Overcrowding in, 56; high taxes for the poor in, 62, 197n. 71; lack of AIDS treatment for the uninsured in, 56, 57, 58; Mobile AIDS Support Services (MASS), 58; unfunded Medicaid program in, 57. See also Habitual Offender Felony Act (HOFA), as cause of overcrowding in Alabama’s prisons; Habitual Offender Felony Act (HOFA), and mass incarceration in Alabama; Habitual Offender Felony Act (HOFA), and racial bias; HIV+ prisoner rights, activism ; HIV+ prisoner rights, and Judge Johnson’s Newman decision; HIV+ prisoner rights, litigation; Kilby Prison; Leatherwood v. Campbell ; Limestone prison; Naphcare, Inc. Angola prison, 29 Attica prison, 10, 11, 75, 198nn. 92, 94 Avenal State Prison, 31 Bias, Len, 51, 194n. 29 Bureau of Justice Statistics: report on HIV/AIDS rates of infection in U.S. prisons and number of education programs in U.S. prisons, 158; report on HIV-related prisoner deaths, 54, 170; report on state prison expenditures, 196n. 55. See also HIV/AIDS, education programs in U.S. prisons; HIV/AIDS, rates of infection in U.S. prisons; Incarceration rates Captive institutions: Massachusetts juvenile reform schools, 25, 171; mitigating destructiveness as an approach for governing, 25, 27; and “right to rot,”22, 23; as “total institutions ,”10, 32, 186n. 5; Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 26, 165, 171. See also Institutional deviance ; Normalization of prisoner deaths Catastrophic jails and prisons in the United States: audit of Arkansas’s “grossly understaffed”prison medical services, 178; Colorado prison’s failure to treat hepatitis C, 178; deaths of New York prisoners in ten New York City jails, 179; deaths of Texas prisoners that “received poor or very poor care,”177, 178; “gross neglect”of prisoners in Utah’s Point of the Mountain prison, 179; gross overcrowding in Florida’s Pinellas County Jail, 178; Maricopa County’s infamous Ward 41, 177; Maryland’s “grossly understaffed ”penal system, 180; New Hampshire prison as having an “ineffective organizational structure,” 179; New Jersey’s prison mental health care “as worst I’ve seen,” 180; numerous problems in Nebraska ’s prison medical care system , 179; segregating of mentally ill prisoners in the Iowa Fort Madison prison “chaotic Cellblock 220,” 179–80; as “snapshots”from 1990 to 2007, 177–80 Chandler, Cynthia, 166, 167, 210n. 62 Clean-needle exchange programs, nonexistent in U.S. penal institutions , 208n. 35 Correctional Health Solutions (CHS): physician browbeating HIV+ prisoners with the Bible, 39; quarantine of all chronically ill prisoners, 39. See also Fulton County Jail Correctional Medical Services (CMS): “we offer cost-predictability ,”37; and “widespread problem of incompetent doctors,”207n. 19 Corrections of‹cers: power of unions to frustrate reduction of penal populations, 152; subculture of, 190n. 15 Deaths in Custody Reporting Act (DICRA), statistics on HIV-related prisoner deaths, 208n. 34 Dorm 16: drafts and collapsing infrastructure , 16, 115; outdoor pill line, 14, 16, 39, 130, 131, 137, 143, 169; vermin , insects, and spiders inside, 16, 115. See also Captive institutions; Leatherwood v. Campbell; Normalization of prisoner deaths; Tabet report, background of Estelle v. Gamble, 72, 73, 199n. 2 Fulton County Jail, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 Grei‹nger, Robert, 37, 38 Habitual Offender Felony Act (HOFA): as cause of overcrowding in Alabama’s prisons, 56; and mass incarceration in Alabama, 56; and racial bias, 56 Hamilton prison, 2 Harris v. Thigpen, 202n. 14, 206n. 46 Health care crises: in marginalized communities, 35, 36, 48, 57, 58, 59, 120, 163, 204n. 13; rooted in neoliberal economic policies, 12, 162, 163; in U.S. penal institutions, 30, 32, 33, 80, 81, 117, 119, 130, 138, 141, 150, 177, 178, 179, 180, 191n. 25, 200n. 21, 206n. 41. See also Hepatitis C; HIV/AIDS; Medical treatment of...