Let them go! Compassionate release for disabled prisoners with chronic health conditions during the Covid-19 public health emergency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21617652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara D Schotland (Georgetown University, corresponding author), Sara Schotland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disability Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-5718 • E-ISSN: 2159-8371 |
| Publisher | The Ohio State University Libraries (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.18061/dsq.v41i3.8305 |
| OpenAlex | W3201189021 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Inmates with disabilities are at high risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19 due to crowded and unsanitary conditions. The punishment for serious crimes is incarceration—not exposure to a dangerous, contagious virus. Prisoners have human rights, notwithstanding the loss of most of their civic rights. Critical Disability Studies draws attention to multiple and overlapping injustices and oppressions. Prisoners with disabilities often suffer from race and ethnic discrimination, poverty, trauma, multiple physical impairments, mental illness, and/or cognitive limitations. This essay calls for action to accelerate compassionate release of disabled inmates, many of whom are at high risk for COVID-19, and offers recommendations for improving conditions of confinement for disabled inmates who remain incarcerated
Criminology · Disease · Ethnic group · Human rights · Mental health · Mental illness · Political science · Poverty · Psychiatry · Public health · Racism · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |