Beyond Do No Harm Principles Session #4: Refusing Carceral Collaborations
This session's topics focus on BDNH Principles #11 and #12, including how health care providers can: 1. Stop providing and/or sanctioning substandard/violative care for people who are in custody or incarcerated in jails, prisons, detention centers, residential centers, group homes, and state facilities. 2. Stop collaborating with the criminal punishment system to violate people in custody, including through performing cavity searches at the request of police or prison officials; evaluating competency to stand trial; experimenting on and sterilizing people who are incarcerated; facilitating torture; or administering the death penalty.
Speakers: Amber Rose Howard (Californians United for a Responsible Budget), Colby Lenz (California Coalition for Women Prisoners), Rev. Jason Lydon (Black & Pink Massachusetts) and Andrea James (National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women) sharing their wisdom on a panel moderated by IC co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie.
Event Recording
Graphic Notes
Illustrated by Sara Yukimoto-Saltman
Image Description: Graphic Notes by Sara Yukimoto-Saltman. Beyond Do No Harm Session 4: Refusing Carceral Collaborations including the names of panelists Amber Rose Howard, Colby Lenz, Jason Lydon, Andrea James, and moderated by Andrea J. Ritchie. Images of a silver moon against a dark background, and a letter with a heart sticker on the envelope "Write to folks on the inside". The bottom half includes phrases such as "Treatment as Trauma" when mental health institutions act as carceral institutions and "Prison is an act of violence" which leads to separation from chidren and family, mental anguish and heartbreak. On the bottom right are the words "We will find a place for you. Come and join us' - an invitation from the participating organizations to join this work.
Resources Shared During the Event
Panelists Resources:
Website links:
Californians United for a Responsible Budget- https://curbprisonspending.org/
Black and Pink Massachusetts- https://www.blackandpinkma.org/
The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls- https://www.nationalcouncil.us/
California Coalition for Women Prisoners- https://womenprisoners.org/
Resources shared in meeting:
**Brand New Resource**: Refusing Carceral Collaborations: bit.ly/RefusingCarceralCollaborations
Crisis to Care: https://humanimpact.org/hipprojects/healthnotwomensprisons/
Interrupting Criminalization’s ‘Non-Police Crisis Response Guide’- https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/non-police-crisis-response-guide
A Checklist for Assessing Mental Health Response Models - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee39ec764dbd7179cf1243c/t/60bf9f520ff8131af61f8883/1623170898488/Checklist.pdfSurvived and Punished: https://survivedandpunished.org/
Charisse Shumate: Fighting for Our Lives, Video link: https://vimeo.com/19050308
Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/29/coronavirus-andrea-circle-bear-federal-prison-death
Building Coordinated Crisis Response: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/building-coordinated-crisis-response
Interrupting Criminalization Evaluation Binder: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/binder
RAPP Campaign: http://rappcampaign.com/
Scopes and Shields: https://www.scopesandshields.org/