Sentenced to death? HIV infection and AIDS in prisons — Current and future concerns

Pagliaro, Louis A.; Pagliaro, Ann Marie

doi:10.3138/cjcrim.34.2.201

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“…The infectious rates of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C among federal prisoners in Canada have been seven to 32 times higher than in the general population (CSC, 2015a; Zakaria et al, 2010). The likelihood of contracting infectious diseases in prison is high enough that some researchers view transmission as a “death sentence” (Pagliaro & Pagliaro, 1992); risk of contagion becomes an extra punishment for incarcerated populations (De Arimatéia da Cruz & Rich, 2014; Simooya, 2010). The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent example of the vulnerability of prisoners and correctional workers to infectious diseases.…”

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Fear of infectious diseases and perceived contagion risk count as an occupational health and safety hazard: Accounts from correctional officer recruits in Canada

Cassiano

Öztürk

Ricciardelli

2021

Journal of Criminology

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Prisons are poorly ventilated confined spaces with limited physical distancing opportunities, making an environment conducive to the spread of infectious diseases. Based on empirical research with correctional officer recruits in Canada, we analyze the reasons and sources of fear, and the measures that recruits adopt to counter their fear of contagion. Our study marks an advance in the correctional work literature, which, to date, has tended to view perceived contagion risks as a workplace challenge that can be overcome with occupational skill and experience. In contrast with the existing literature, we present fear and perceived contagion risk as an “operational stress injury” that affects all correctional officers; a structural occupational health and safety problem that needs redressing from the labor policy perspective.

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Fear of infectious diseases and perceived contagion risk count as an occupational health and safety hazard: Accounts from correctional officer recruits in Canada

Cassiano

Öztürk

Ricciardelli

2021

Journal of Criminology

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“…Many inmates continue to indulge in high-risk HIV transmission activities after entering prison. In fact, inmates sometimes engage in a greater number of high-risk HIV transmission behaviors and engage in these behaviors more frequently than members of the general population (Pagliaro & Pagliaro, 1992).…”

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High-Risk HIV Transmission Behavior in Prison and the Prison Subculture

Krebs

2002

The Prison Journal

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Nearly two million people are currently housed in state and federal prisons. The rate of AIDS infection is 5 times higher in prisons than in the general population. High-risk HIV transmission behaviors take place inside prisons, and there is little doubt that intraprison HIV transmission occurs. What is not well understood is what determines whether high-risk HIV transmission behaviors occur and how they can be prevented inside prison. In this article, an integrated theoretical framework, which merges the importation and deprivation models of inmate behavior, is proposed to explain intraprison high-risk HIV transmission behavior. Data from an inmate survey suggest that sex and tattooing are the two most prevalent intraprison high-risk HIV transmission behaviors and that the majority of high-risk behavior in prison can be attributed to the deprivation model. These data, coupled with insightful inmate comments, carry important policy implications and should inform future HIV education and prevention efforts.

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Handbook of Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse

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Sentenced to death? HIV infection and AIDS in prisons — Current and future concerns

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Fear of infectious diseases and perceived contagion risk count as an occupational health and safety hazard: Accounts from correctional officer recruits in Canada

Fear of infectious diseases and perceived contagion risk count as an occupational health and safety hazard: Accounts from correctional officer recruits in Canada

High-Risk HIV Transmission Behavior in Prison and the Prison Subculture

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