Breaking Down The Stigma: Humanizing The Inmates Of Jackson County Indiana

Webthis article describes overlapping links among incarceration, poor health, race, and stigma, and stigma's impact on the health of former prisoners and their. Webthe use of dehumanizing language, such as inmate, offender, criminal, convict, addict, and felon provokes inflated assumptions of violence and unreliability. Webjackson county officials have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the death of a mentally ill inmate who was kept in solitary confinement at the southern indiana county.

— a contractor that provides medical care for inmates at the jackson county jail has denied allegations against it and an employee.