01 Sep 5 Years After Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline Continues Operating – Illegally
Posted at 10:27h in Comment & Opinion
02 May Fixing Solitary Confinement In New York State Prisons
Posted at 09:42h in Comment & Opinion
Victor Pate spent almost two years in solitary confinement in New York prisons, off and on. Once, he said, he was isolated for 90 days for having too many bed sheets in his room. Only two sheets were allowed per prisoner, but Pate was at...
04 Sep Invisible Prisoners: The Fight for Human Rights
Posted at 02:20h in Comment & Opinion
JURIST Guest Columnist Katherine Todrys of the Health and Human Rights Division of Human Rights Watch recounts her experiences researching disease transmission and living standards in African prisons. She calls for sweeping criminal justice reforms to address the systemic problems of overcrowding, human rights abuses...
04 Aug 30 Years into the HIV Epidemic, Still Locked Up and Left Out
Posted at 16:03h in Comment & Opinion
I met Hellene in a Ugandan prison. She was 16 years old and living in rural Uganda when she was raped, leaving her pregnant and HIV-positive. Hellene told me that her rapists also kidnapped a child in her care, and she was arrested soon after....
25 Jul HIV and TB Spread Unchecked in Uganda’s Prisons
Posted at 15:42h in Comment & Opinion
The darling of international health donors is doing little to preserve the health of its prisoners...
29 Apr Good Prisoner Health is Good Public Health
Posted at 11:15h in Comment & Opinion
Zambia's policy of free universal HIV treatment and wide availability of tuberculosis drugs show an impressive commitment to public health. But an important group has been left out in Zambia's fight against these diseases-prisoners....