Prison Issues: National Conference, Web Sites
A major national conference on prison issues (medical and other), including over 150 workshops on varied topics, will take place September 25-27 at the University of California at Berkeley. "Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex," is sponsored by many prison, academic, and legal organizations, including California Coalition for Women Prisoners, California Prison Focus, and the Prison Activist Resource Center.
Major topics include prison as industry, law and policy, research and activism, alternatives for addressing problems such as drugs and homelessness, human rights and conditions of confinement, education in prison and otherwise, and media representations & popular culture. HIV and healthcare workshops include disabled prisoners, women's health, medical neglect in prison, alternatives to incarceration for the disabled, terminally ill and elderly, responding to the infectious disease epidemic within the prison industrial complex, and health and human rights in prison. For more information, contact Critical Resistance, P.O. Box 339, Berkeley, CA 94701, 510-643-2094, email critresist@aol.com, Web http://www.criticalresistance.org/.
Prison-related Web sites include:
http://www.prisonactivist.org/ , Prison Activist Resource Center, includes prison issues, prison news, a current list of over 150 prison issues and reform organizations, and almost 50 prison-related Web links.
JusticeWeb, includes about 180 articles on medical care in prisons, and about 50 on HIV, as of our search on September 1. Click "Search," then enter 'HIV', 'medical', or other keyword you are searching for (without the single quotes), and click "Search."
Prison Law Links, includes over 200 Web links on: Health and Well-Being, Prison Information and Resources, Activism, Corrections, Correctional Officers, Education, International, Journals and Magazines, Law and Prisons, and poetry, art, and other prison-related sites.
[California note: The Caravan for Prisoners' Human Rights, a protest by many organizations on October 17, will carpool from San Francisco and other cities to Chowchilla women's prison for a noon rally, and then from there to Corcoran prison for a 2:30 p.m. rally. Major focus will include substandard medical care, worsening conditions for California prisoners, and denial of access to news media. For carpool and other information, call the HIV in Prison Committee of California Prison Focus, 510-533-2590.]
