Mass incarceration is a sociostructural driver of profound health inequalities in the United
States. The political and economic forces underpinning mass incarceration are deeply …

Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on prisoners. The prison
environment and prisoner health put prison populations at a higher risk of contracting …

This article details how a subset of women can perceive of prison as temporary refuge from
the hardships and marginalization they face on the outside. It focuses particularly on a group …

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the impact of COVID-19 in the Scottish
Prison Estate. During the 2020 lockdown in prison in response to the COVID-19 pandemic …

Correctional scholarship has demonstrated concern over the dehumanizing implications of
the carceral state for incarcerated people. This concern has been paralleled by an interest in …

The relationship between pandemic, or chronic infectious diseases, and the carceral,
meaning set‐apart spaces of enforced confinement for 'wrong‐doers,'has a long, tangled …

Prisons disproportionately confine people who have extensive histories of illicit drug use
and tend to hold groups of people who continue using drugs, albeit in different forms and …

Although the exact toll of COVID-19 in US prisons and jails is relatively undetermined,
estimates show that deaths due to the virus in the nation's correctional facilities are …

Sykes (1958) famously outlined five deprivations constituting the 'pains of imprisonment',
later developed in a range of research, including research considering the gendered pains …

Women in prison experience a double digital divide, due to gendered discrimination and
carceral isolation. We focus on a recent policy change in New South Wales (NSW) …