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Wards of the State: Care and Custody in a Maximum-Security Prison

By Nick Iacobelli M.D., Ph.D
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By Nick Iacobelli M.D., Ph.D
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In 1976, the Supreme Court affirmed incarcerated people's right to healthcare under the Eighth Amendment. Wards of the State examines the everyday instantiation of incarcerated people's right to healthcare within a men's maximum-security prison in Pennsylvania. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Nicholas Iacobelli observes how the prison's medical unit operates as a "ward of the state"—a space that reproduces the state's ideological commitment to punishment through its obligati...

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