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Is It Politic to Limit Our Compassion?

Robert B. Greifinger

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 27 (3):234-237 (1999)

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The Collision of Confinement and Care: End-of-Life Care in Prisons and Jails.Nancy Neveloff Dubler - 1998 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 26 (2):149-156.details In 1997, the United States incarcerated over 1.7 million persons in local jails and in state and federal prisons. These inmates are disproportionately poor and persons of color. Many lack adequate access to health care before incarceration and present to correctional services with major unaddressed medical problems.Convictions for drug possession and use have increased the number of injection drug users with HIV and AIDS in prisons. Determinate sentencing and “three strikes and you’re out” laws have increased the number of inmates (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations
Tuberculosis in Prison: Balancing Justice and Public Health.Robert B. Greifinger, Nancy J. Heywood & Jordan B. Glaser - 1993 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 21 (3-4):332-341.details During the mid-nineteenth century the annual tuberculosis mortality in the penitentiaries at Auburn, N.Y., Boston, and Philadelphia exceeded 10 percent of the inmate population. At the beginning of the sanatorium era, 80 percent of the prison deaths were attributed to TB. As the mountain air was “commonly known” to be healthful, the first prison sanatorium was opened in the mountains near Dannemora, N.Y. in 1904. It served to isolate contagious prison inmates until the advent of effective chemotherapy for the disease (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
Compassionate Release from New York State Prisons: Why are So Few Getting Out?John A. Beck - 1999 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 27 (3):216-233.details It is inevitable that some inmates in large state prison systems will suffer from terminal conditions and die while incarcerated. But how those inmates experience that event is primarily controlled by correctional policies and by the prison medical and correctional staff assigned to their care. Compassion for inmates who are dying cannot be legislated or mandated, but humane and compassionate care for the dying can be facilitated or thwarted by legislative and correctional policies, and by the manner in which correctional (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations

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