ATAC�s Access to Health Care for the Incarcerated has the goal of
increasing access to health care for incarcerated people through strategy
coordination, information sharing, training and advocacy for allied individuals,
groups, and communities.
For more information on this working group, which is
currently in formation, contact Rob Mealey at [email protected]
HIV and HCV (Hepatitis C) in Prison -- Web Links
Of the hundreds of good Web sites on HIV, hepatitis, or prisons, we have
chosen about 40 to help you get started in finding the information and services
you need.
I. HIV/AIDS Medical and Service Information (Note
separate hepatitis C section below.)
http://www.thebody.com/whatis/prison.html
The
Body's "Prisoners and HIV/AIDS" page has links to dozens of articles including
personal accounts, legal information, HIV and HCV treatment, and general
news.
http://www.nmac.org/treatment/prison_initiative/prison_initiative.htm
Excellent
site for the Prison Initiative of the National Minority AIDS Council. See their
resource list for: "Conferences; Correctional setting-specific publications;
Newsletters; Pamphlets, brochures & handouts on HIV/AIDS; Videos; General
health info/STD; Hepatitis; Policy reports & other good stuff; Additional
resources for inmates."
http://positivepopulations.org/
POSITIVE
POPULATIONS is known for its coverage of Correctional and Public Health issues.
Our web based edition features current and back issues of the Newsletter and
several Internet only services. POSITIVE POPULATIONS on the Web provides regular
guest commentaries by experts in correctional and public Health and the
opportunity for you to comment to the authors. In addition, the web version
offers a forum for people engaged in corrections and public health to share
ideas and links to other sites of common interest.
http://hab.hrsa.gov/special/corrections_index.htm
Services
to people with HIV in correctional settings.
http://www.cdc.gov/idu/criminaljustice.htm
This
series discusses the issue of drug users in the criminal justice system. It
explains the importance of this setting in reaching drug users with HIV
prevention messages and interventions and looks at some of the challenges
involved. Each fact sheet also provides information on how to get other
materials on preventing HIV and other blood-borne infections among injection
drug users (IDUs).
http://www.healthstrategies.org/pubs/factsheets.htm#phc
Fact
sheets on prison and HIV, hepatitis, TB, substance abuse treatment, helping
people return to the community, and other topics.
http://www.hivcorrections.org
HIV
Education Prison Project (HEPP), a monthly newsletter. Published by Brown
University, "HEPP Report, a forum for correctional problem solving, targets
correctional administrators and HIV/AIDS and hepatitis care providers including
physicians, nurses, outreach workers, and case managers." Publishes monthly
newsletter on HIV treatment in prison; current and back issues are available on
the Web.
http://movementbuilding.org/prisonhealth/
Understanding
Prison Health Care: Fostering competence and compassion in treating
prisoners
http://www.aidsinfonet.org/topics.php
Practical
treatment information from New Mexico AIDS Infonet, organized as almost 140
single-page fact sheets on topics including background on AIDS, prevention,
services, antivirals, opportunistic infections, side effects of medicines,
alternative and complementary treatments, and AIDS Web links. Not prison
specific.
http://www.prisons.org/
California
Prison Focus includes hepatitis C ("Fight for consistent access to quality
medical care including access to all new HIV and hepatitis C medications,
diagnostic testing and combination therapies"), human rights, transgender and
gender variant prisoners, and several California issues. Note hepatitis C links
at:
http://www.prisons.org/HIV/hcvlinks.htm
http://www.pasan.org/PASAN.htm
Canadian
organization with amazing prison planning and discharge resources -- much of it
useful in the U.S. and other countries as well. See especially "PROS & CONS:
A Guide to Creating Successful Community-Based HIV/AIDS Programs for Prisoners,"
published 2002; it's available through the "IN PRINT" link on the home page.
http://www.tpan.com/publications/positively_aware/positively_aware_2001.html
"
HIV on Lockdown" (select the July/August 2001 issues of Positively Aware).
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/issues/v35n3/011575/brief/011575.abstract.html
Important
medical article, Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Correctional Facilities: A
Review. (Click "Go to full text.")
http://www.aclu.org/HIVAIDS/HIVAIDSMain.cfm
American
Civil Liberty Union HIV issues, including a section on prison. Also see archive
of the ACLU National Prison Project, at:
http://archive.aclu.org/issues/prisons/npp_mission.html
http://www.aidslaw.ca (click "Main
content" then "Our Main Issues" then "HIV / AIDS in Prisons")
Canadian links
on HIV in prison.
http://www.prisonpoz.org/listserv.htm
How
the join the Prisonpoz email list on HIV and related conditions in prison.
http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/
Government
guidelines on HIV treatment (not prison specific).
II. Hepatitis (especially Hepatitis C) and Prison --
Resources
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5201a1.htm
U.S.
guidelines on prevention and control of all hepatitis viruses, released January
2003.
A news story about the guidelines is at:
http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hep_c/news/012903b.html
http://www.hcvinprison.org/
(including state guidelines)
" The National Hepatitis C Prison Coalition was
formed to bring together organizations and individuals interested in raising
awareness and providing support to prisoners who are suffering from hepatitis
and HIV/HCV coinfection. Our goal is to help educate prisoners and advocate for
better testing, treatment and prevention of these diseases." This site includes
Department of Corrections HCV treatment guidelines for 26 states (others are
being added now) -- and many useful links on HCV, HIV, and prisons (check the
bottom of the home page, as well as the "Links" page).
http://www.prisons.org/HIV/hcvlinks.htm
This
page has about 25 links to organizations and publications working on issues
related to HIV/HCV co-infection in prison.
III. General Prison Help
http://www.prisonactivist.org/links
Over
300 Web links on prison activism (not health specific). Also see the home page,
http://www.prisonactivist.org/links
http://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/
"
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children advocates for the human rights and
empowerment of incarcerated parents, children, family members and people at risk
for incarceration. We respond to requests for information, trainings, technical
assistance, litigation, community activism and the development of more
advocates. Our focus is on women prisoners and their families, and we emphasize
that issues of race are central to any discussion of incarceration."
http://www.jnow.org/
Justice Now
"
Our mission is to end violence against women and stop their imprisonment. We
believe that prisons and policing are not making our communities safe and whole
but that, in fact, the current system severely damages the people it imprisons
and the communities most affected by it. We promote alternatives to policing and
prisons and challenge the prison industrial complex in all its forms. "
http://schr.org/resources/
Southern Center for Human Rights -- legal and support resources, especially
for Georgia and Alabama.
http://www.curenational.org/new/
"
CURE (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants) is a membership
organization of families of prisoners, prisoners, former prisoners and other
concerned citizens. CURE's two goals are (1) to use prisons only for those who
have to be in them (2) and for those who have to be in them, to provide them all
the rehabilitative opportunities they need to turn their lives around."
http://www.fortunesociety.org/
"
Staffed primarily by ex-offenders, The Fortune Society is a not-for-profit
community-based organization dedicated to educating the public about prisons,
criminal justice issues, and the root causes of crime. We also help ex-offenders
and at-risk youth break the cycle of crime and incarceration through a broad
range of services."
http://www.osborneny.org/
The
Osborne Associations offers services for prisoners in New York State.
Also
see the statistics that cycle through a box on the screen. For example: The rate
of HIV infection in prison is almost 12 times higher than in the general
population; Nearly 1,500,000 U. S. children have a parent in prison; Nearly half
of New York's prisoners are drug offenders; Fewer than 30% of New York prisoners
have been convicted of a violent offense; Thirteen percent of all African
American men in the U.S. cannot vote because they are in prison or on probation
or parole; A quarter of all the world's prisoners are in U.S. prisons and
jails.
http://www.tifa.org/
Texas Inmate
Families Association
" Six out of ten children follow their parents into
prison. This statistic is way too high! We, as families, must become involved to
change a system that is hardened and often inaccessible."
http://www.centerforce.org/
Support for families and visitors of prisoners, in Northern and Central
California. "The Centerforce mission is to strengthen individuals and families
affected by incarceration through a comprehensive system of education and
support." Also see:
http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/projects/mapindex.html
http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/US/prisons/
Yahoo's
Web page on recent prison news.
http://www.pacificnews.org/yo/beat/about.html
"
The Beat Within is a publication of the writings and art from Juvenile Halls and
beyond."
http://www.thepamperedprisoner.com/resource.htm
A
pen-pal personals site that includes miscellaneous resource lists.
IV. Prison Statistics and Reference
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/hivp01.htm
U.S.
statistics on number of prisoners with HIV in each state, and in Federal
prisons, in 2001. Released January 2004.
Note: Similar reports are available
for every year since 1993; they can be reached through the same Web page.
http://www.corrections.com
" The
official home of corrections," with lots of information including some on health
care, and HIV. Also see http://www.corrections.com/aca, the
American Corrections Association, which includes an archive of April 2002 oral
talks on hepatitis in prison.
http://www.ncchc.org
Provides
standards, guidelines, and technical assistance on health care for prisoners.
"The mission of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care is to
improve the quality of health care in jails, prisons and juvenile confinement
facilities." They are not activists, but accredit prison health programs as
meeting their standards; accreditation is voluntary, but over 500 institutions
are accredited. Their 2003 standards for health care are at at:
http://www.ncchc.org/pubs/index.html
http://www.ncjrs.org/
Huge database of
reports on prison, law enforcement, courts, and crime, from the National
Criminal Justice Research Service. Click "view all subjects" for a list of
categories.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/archive.html
Another
large research database -- this one from the National Archive of Criminal
Justice Data.
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