Dying Inside - The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison (USA/UK?)

Dying Inside

The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison

Benjamin Fleury-Steiner
With Carla Crowder

A graphic exposé of the inhumane treatment of HIV-positive inmates in
U.S. prisons

About the Book

"The HIV+ men incarcerated in Limestone Prison's Dorm 16 were put
there to be forgotten. Not only do Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Carla
Crowder bring these men to life, Fleury-Steiner and Crowder also
insist on placing these men in the middle of critical conversations
about health policy, mass incarceration, and race. Dense with
firsthand accounts, Dying Inside is a nimble, far-ranging and
unblinking look at the cruelty inherent in our current penal
policies."
---Lisa Kung, Director, Southern Center for Human Rights

"The looming prison health crisis, documented here at its extreme, is
a shocking stain on American values and a clear opportunity to rethink
our carceral approach to security."
---Jonathan Simon, University of California, Berkeley

"Dying Inside is a riveting account of a health crisis in a hidden
prison facility."
---Michael Musheno, San Francisco State University, and coauthor of
Deployed

"This fresh and original study should prick all of our consciences
about the horrific consequences of the massive carceral state the
United States has built over the last three decades."
---Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The
Prison and the Gallows

"An important, bold, and humanitarian book."
---Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge

"Fleury-Steiner makes a compelling case that inmate health care in
America's prisons and jails has reached the point of catastrophe."
---Sharon Dolovich, University of California, Los Angeles

"Fleury-Steiner's persuasive argument not only exposes the sins of
commission and omission on prison cellblocks, but also does an
excellent job of showing how these problems are the natural result of
our nation's shortsighted and punitive criminal justice policy."
---Allen Hornblum, Temple University, and author of Sentenced to
Science

Dying Inside brings the reader face-to-face with the nightmarish
conditions inside Limestone Prison's Dorm 16---the segregated HIV
ward. Here, patients chained to beds share their space with insects
and vermin in the filthy, drafty rooms, and contagious diseases spread
like wildfire through a population with untreated---or poorly managed
at best---HIV.

While Dorm 16 is a particularly horrific human rights tragedy, it is
also a symptom of a disease afflicting the entire U.S. prison system.
In recent decades, prison populations have exploded as Americans made
mass incarceration the solution to crime, drugs, and other social
problems even as privatization of prison services, especially health
care, resulted in an overcrowded, underfunded system in which the most
marginalized members of our society slowly wither from what the author
calls "lethal abandonment."

This eye-opening account of one prison's failed health-care standards
is a wake-up call, asking us to examine how we treat our forgotten
citizens and compelling us to rethink the American prison system in
this increasingly punitive age.

Benjamin Fleury-Steiner is Associate Professor of Sociology and
Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Visit the author's
website.

Carla Crowder, a former reporter for the Birmingham News, has written
extensively about prison .

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