This section is supposed to explain the way I organized this website and below the website breakdown are my recommended tips for reading this wordy website.
1. Home: This section states the purpose and argument of this website.
2. Introduction: This section includes a couple of page that provide important abolitionist framing and critiques of prisons.
3. Background: This page focuses on medical experiments conducted in prisons to provide a historical grounding of health violence in prisons being widely accepted, including by doctors.
4. Research: This is the MAIN SECTION of this website, containing evidence that exposes the living conditions and functions of prisons in Alabama as inhumane.
5. Happening in Alabama: This page focuses on current practices or updates pertaining to Alabama’s carceral system, this includes information on the construction of a mega-prison, prison strikes, and the nitrogen gas death penalty.
6. Conclusion: A short section to wrap up the project as a re-emphasis of prisons as an inherent place of violence, and its tie to health violence and public health.
7. What Now? : This section plugs organizations in Alabama that work with incarcerated people, local bail support funds, abolition resources, trusted news providers. providers.
8. Work Cited: This is where all my resources/research are formally cited.
Reading Tip
For the best educational experience with this website, I recommend going through the sections in the order they are presented in the menu tab. I have attached videos in all of these sections which are included as a supplemental source, but understand that not everyone has the time to read and watch everything. In that case, I recommend people watch all of the videos and read the conclusion page. The videos are news clips and posts from local organizations, they include stories from incarcerated people which is the most important source and my conclusion will serve as a through line to connect these different stories to a centralized theme of prisons as a public health crisis.
“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
– Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, ed. Frank Barat (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016), 23.
PRISONS ARE A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: ALABAMA PAVES THE WAY 