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We write to illuminate the harms of the Punishment Bureaucracy, provide a counter to traditional “public safety” narratives, and offer support for alternative investments that better enable safety and health.
Cop Cities are coming: Where will healthcare workers stand?
“If healthcare workers are serious about organizing for the betterment of all, then we must build a collective understanding of how carceral institutions worsen the very disparities we hope to eradicate.”
Beware the Healthier Cage
“The inability and unwillingness to develop robust alternatives shows us the values, or lack thereof, of the punishment bureaucracy and that carceral spaces are fundamentally ill-suited to provide a therapeutic environment, let alone evidence-based care.”
The harms of poor policy: The urgent need to end police pursuits
“Working in a safety-net hospital, each day is a Sisyphean struggle to address patients’ unmet needs that result from policy decisions.”
Georgia remains hostile to women’s health care
“The American criminal legal system punishes more people under harsher conditions for longer periods of time than any other democratic nation on earth.”
What the Astronomical Rise in Incarceration Means for Women's Health
It must be understood that jails and prisons are barriers to, not facilitators of, health equity…the short time often spent in a local jail is destabilizing on many fronts, causing loss of jobs, housing, and parental rights. Any potential health screening benefit is clearly better done elsewhere.”
Prisoner First, Patient Second
“Regrettably, in our emergency departments and hospital beds, instead of a respite from systemic neglect, the substandard medical care doesn't end. Incarcerated patients often face a new litany of degradations as their most basic medical rights are ignored.”
Decarceration: The Urgent and Necessary Solution To Georgia’s Prison Crisis.
“The chronic stress endured in prison has been shown to prematurely age people, with one study showing one year incarcerated taking two years off of one’s life expectancy.”
Ending the long fight over the Atlanta City Detention Center
“The demand to close and repurpose ACDC is not a call to abandon those suffering the abysmal conditions in Fulton jails today. It is a demand for solutions that can address the immediate needs of those disproportionately criminalized and to center harm prevention as a policy priority.”
No, A Jail is not an Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Facility
“This "jail as treatment center" ideology often centers anecdotes of recovery in carceral spaces while ignoring the incredible amounts of trauma, suffering, and premature death inflicted upon most who are detained.”
Like The Rest Of Us, Incarcerated People Should Have Access To Their Medical Records
“The mounting preventable death toll occurring in Fulton County and nationally demonstrates the need for proactive, preventative-focused interventions to address the widespread medical neglect incarcerated people endure.”
Cash Bail Undermines Georgians Health and Safety
“Wealth-based detention is one more iteration of the systemic inequalities baked into the American legal system.”