scholarly journals How Well Insured are Job Losers? Efficacy of the Public Safety Net

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloe East ◽  
David Simon
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Bridging the digital divide: The use of text message enabled video in the public safety-net setting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail Cline ◽  
Carey Kim ◽  
Juliana Berk-Krauss ◽  
Abrahem Kazemi ◽  
David Ginsberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The Public

Jailcare

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Sufrin
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Maternal Identity ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Pass Through

Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation's jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. This book explores how jail has, paradoxically, become a place where women can find care. Focusing on the experiences of incarcerated pregnant women as well as on the practices of the jail guards and health providers who care for them. The book describes the contradictory ways that care and maternal identity emerge within a punitive space presumed to be devoid of care. It argues that jail is not simply a disciplinary institution that serves to punish, rather, when understood in the context of the poverty, addiction, violence, and racial oppression that characterize these women's lives and their reproduction, jail can become a safety net for women on the margins of society.

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