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ArticleIncarceration : an international journal of imprisonment, detention and coercive confinement

Making prisoner deaths visible: Towards a new epistemological approach.

Philippa Tomczak, Róisín Mulgrew

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Philippa TomczakSociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2347-2479
Róisín MulgrewSchool of Law and Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.

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Abstract

In custodial contexts, the duty of states to protect the most fundamental right - to life - is heightened. Nevertheless, prisoner deaths are a universal and frequent concern. The mortality rate among the 11.5 million prisoners globally is up to 50% higher than amongst non-imprisoned persons, forming a human rights and health equity concern. It is therefore peculiar that prisoner deaths have attracted only piecemeal scholarly attention. In this article, we problematize epistemologies of prisoner death, highlighting obfuscations and agglomerations in existing datasets based on poor definitions, reductive statistics and constrained medico-legal categorizations. We provide a springboard towards a new epistemological approach that makes the scale and breadth of prisoner deaths and deceased prisoner characteristics more visible to facilitate prevention. We advance three tenets:

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