La politique de lutte contre les épidémies carcérales dans les prisons françaises, 1944-1994

From 1944 onwards, the struggle against prison epidemics in French prisons is characterized by the implementation of a health policy aimed at controlling the contagious risk in prison and preventing its spread to the rest of the population. Based on the screening of detainees at the entrance to peni...

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Main Author: Jean-Lucien Sanchez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Criminocorpus 2022-05-01
Series:Criminocorpus
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/11955
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description From 1944 onwards, the struggle against prison epidemics in French prisons is characterized by the implementation of a health policy aimed at controlling the contagious risk in prison and preventing its spread to the rest of the population. Based on the screening of detainees at the entrance to penitentiary establishments and on the isolation of contaminated persons in health centers, it allows effective control of tuberculosis and syphilis, which are the main contagious diseases that affect prisoners. But it fails in the face of the outbreak of the HIV-AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s. This new epidemic, which takes a dramatic turn with the so-called “contaminated blood affair”, accelerates the decompartmentalization process of prison medicine which in 1994 led to its transfer to the public hospital service.
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La politique de lutte contre les épidémies carcérales dans les prisons françaises, 1944-1994
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prisons
epidemics
prison administration
HIV-AIDS
tuberculosis
syphilis
title La politique de lutte contre les épidémies carcérales dans les prisons françaises, 1944-1994
title_full La politique de lutte contre les épidémies carcérales dans les prisons françaises, 1944-1994
title_fullStr La politique de lutte contre les épidémies carcérales dans les prisons françaises, 1944-1994
title_full_unstemmed La politique de lutte contre les épidémies carcérales dans les prisons françaises, 1944-1994
title_short La politique de lutte contre les épidémies carcérales dans les prisons françaises, 1944-1994
title_sort la politique de lutte contre les epidemies carcerales dans les prisons francaises 1944 1994
topic prisons
epidemics
prison administration
HIV-AIDS
tuberculosis
syphilis
url https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/11955
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