The English Prison Health System After a Decade of Austerity, 2010-2020
The Failed Political Experiment
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The English Prison Health System After a Decade of Austerity, 2010-2020
The Failed Political Experiment
About this book
Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups. This book opens up the closed world of English prisons to examine its impact on prison health governance and healthcare delivery. It argues that austerity has been a decade-long, large-scale political experiment that has caused debt to balloon, eroded the prison health system and perpetuated a cycle of punishment resulting in sicker prisoners. In short, austerity has violated prisoners' human rights.
Drawing on interviews and data from existing longitudinal and economic analyses, the book demonstrates how austerity has resulted in high rates of recidivism, diminished what remains of the welfare state, and increased inequality and punitiveness. Despite a decade of failure, there is a marked political reluctance to dispense with austerity, and the governmental juggernaut continues to produce the same result. As the spectre of recession increases, caused in part by Brexit and COVID-19, these failures are ever more perilous.
This book blends the interdisciplinary perspectives of criminology, public health, sociology, law, social policy, politics, and economics to enable greater understanding of the impact of austerity on health governance, prison healthcare, the prison workforce, and prisoners' health and safety. It challenges current policy, practice and thinking, and is a must read for anyone who wants to reflect on how the political economic structure can affect the governance and delivery of healthcare services in marginalised settings, beyond prisons, and indeed beyond England.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The spell of neoliberalism and austerity
- 3 The governance and delivery of prisons and prison healthcare services in England
- 4 Current state of health in English prisons
- 5 Deconstructing the experimental nature of austerity
- 6 Deterioration in rehabilitative prison environment
- 7 Destabilisation of prisons and prison health governance
- 8 Deflection of political responsibility
- 9 The failure to scrutinise
- 10 Ending austerity
- 11 Conclusion
- 12 Methodological appendix
- Index