RT Article
T1 Health provision and health professional roles under compromised circumstances: lessons from Sierra Leone’s prisons
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 19
IS 5
SP 572
OP 590
A1 Jefferson, Andrew
A2 Jalloh, Ahmed S.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1741686822
AB This article adds to a growing body of empirical work on prisons in the global south. It reports on a survey into prison health provision in Sierra Leone, West Africa conducted by a local non-governmental organization (Prison Watch - Sierra Leone). Taking the survey results as the point of departure and engaging with the limited literature on prison health provision in the South we discuss the role of health professionals in preventing violence in prisons, suggesting that, under compromised circumstances where a punitive penal ethos often subverts good intentions and appeals to professionalism, advocacy for prisoner health and torture prevention initiatives must be broad-based and include a more radical questioning of the foundations of the penal apparatus. Such circumstances call for a more critical interrogation of dominant forms of penality and generic modes of intervention than has hitherto been the case.
K1 Compromised circumstances
K1 Letting die
K1 Prison health
K1 Sierra Leone
K1 Torture prevention
DO 10.1177/1748895818787016