HIV/AIDS in Prison
This is a very low-tech site intended to provide links and information about
HIV/AIDS in prison. It's primarily based on my doctoral research and on
several years of activist experience in this field. You can contact me at rachel.maddow@lincoln.ox.ac.uk.
HIV/AIDS in Prison Links
Canadian
HIV/AIDS Legal Network Prison index
An excellent and authoritative source for Canadian, Australian, and other
international legal and policy information.
HIV in Prison Committee of
California Prison Focus
Judy Greenspan, formerly of the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project of Catholic
Charities, now chairs CPF's HIV in Prison
Committee.
The Body's Prison Page
The Body is one of the HIV/AIDS "super-sites" (see HIV/AIDS links
below). Their prison reference page provides links to a number of specific articles
and publications.
St.
Louis Post-Dispatch Special Report: Health Care Behind Bars
Read the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's excellent, and controversial, September
1998 special report on Correctional Medical Services, Inc.
HIV InSite's
Prison Page
HIV Insite is another HIV/AIDS
"super-site" operated by the University
of California at San Francisco. Their prison site links to
prison-related info in the "AIDS Knowledge Base" on-line textbook,
as well as other documents and sites. Also a very useful tool for searching
recent news documents about HIV/AIDS and prison.
AIDS in Prison Project of
the Osborne Association
New York City-based organisation providing a
helpline and other services for New
York prisoners with HIV.
Centerforce
- San Quentin, California
Collaboration with the Marin AIDS Project and the University of California at
San Francisco's Center for AIDS
Prevention Studies.
HEPP News
Monthly newsletter published by the HIV Education Prison Project of the Brown
University AIDS Program.
HIV Plus -
Special Issue on Prisons
HIV Plus is a bimonthly publication focused on research and treatment issues.
The December 1999/January 2000 issue focuses on prisons. It includes articles
on segregation, privatized prison health care, models of good practice,
activism, etc.
Correctional HIV Consortium
No longer in existence as an organisation, but the
site contains some useful information about their quarterly educational
updates for prison health care providers.
Pre-Release
HIV/AIDS Information Packets in Connecticut
Connecticut Prison Association's 1996 press release on Connecticut's HIV/AIDS pre-release
information packet.
Prisons and Prison Reform Links
National Criminal Justice
Reference Service
The abstracts database is a near-comprehensive source of academic and
industry documents in criminal justice.
National Archive of
Criminal Justice Documents
Maintained by the University
of Michigan. I
recommend using it in conjunction with the NCJRS abstract database.
California Prisons and Prison Law
Maintained by Arnold
Erickson of the Prison Law Office in San Quentin. Well organized and
authoritatively sourced.
California Coalition for Women
Prisoners
Organizing around medical care, HIV/AIDS care and prevention, control units,
and other issues affecting California
women prisoners.
Stop Prisoner Rape
Well-organised site with practical advice for
prisoners.
Prison Issues Desk
Excellent radical site maintained by the Prison
Activist Resource
Center in California. Archive of maillist
discussions, links to prison activist groups and the Critical Resistance
conference, huge number of document links.
Yahoo! Full
Coverage - US Prison Issues
An easy way to keep up on current news coverage of US prisons.
corrections.com
Industry mega-site for corrections organisations,
unions, and a mind-boggling number of product/service suppliers.
California Prison Focus
Homepage for CPF and site-hosting for a number of other prison-focused groups
based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Check out their HIV in Prison Committee.
Cecil Greek's Criminal Justice
Pages
This Florida
professor maintains a huge list of international criminal justice, prisons,
prison reform, and media links.
Bureau of Justice
Statistics
National Institute of Justice
HIV/AIDS Links
Aegis
The search engine, library (including an HIV Law Library) and links are
first-rate.
HIV InSite
Maintained by the University of California at San
Francisco. Key Topics, full-text reports, treatment
guidelines, and the AIDS Knowledge Base on-line textbook.
The Body
Treatment, general HIV/AIDS information, a search engine and site hosting.
AIDS.org (Formerly Immunet)
Similar to The Body but notable for its full index of John James' excellent AIDS Treatment News.
Medscape
HIV/AIDS (Formerly HealthCG.com)
Corporate site intended for doctors but useful for anyone with an interest in
treatment.
Critical Path
Philadelphia-based, fast, non-corporate site. Good list of upcoming
conferences and meetings. Hosts a huge number of sites.
ACT UP chapters: New York, Philadelphia, Golden Gate (in San Francisco) -- now known as Survive AIDS, Paris.
News of ACT UP's demise have been greatly
exaggerated. Philadelphia
is the most active chapter for prison issues.
MEDLINE search
via the National Library of Medicine.
Marty Howard's HIV/AIDS Home
Page
Useful for its thorough list of HIV/AIDS-related mail-lists and newsgroups.
CDC's National Prevention Information
Network
Formerly the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National AIDS
Clearinghouse.
AIDS Treatment Project
Based in the UK.
Especially useful for its archive of Dr Fax - critical (but definitely not
layman's) treatment biweekly.
UNAIDS
Hepatitis C is a major epidemic behind bars, and poses a special threat to
prisoners with HIV. The Hepatitis
Information Network is a good place to start for information about Hep C and other forms of Hepatitis.
I am the listowner for the PrisonPoz
email listserv - a communications and organizing tool for people interested
in HIV and hepatitis in prisons. To join, email listproc@critpath.org. Leave the
subject line blank, and in the body of the message include the following
text: subscribe prisonpoz your name (i.e. subscribe
prisonpoz Al Gore).
You can contact me at rachel.maddow@lincoln.ox.ac.uk.
Updated 5/2000.
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