A Rejoinder to Vaugh and Smith's "Practicing penal harm medicine in the United States: Prisoners' voices from jail"

Authors

Richard Kiekbusch, University of Texas Permian Basin
Ken Kerle, American Jail Association
Stan Stojkovic, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Joe Rowan, Criminal and Juvenile International, Inc.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-18-2006

Abstract

Correctional health care has improved tremendously over the past 25 years. This rejoinder is a response to an article published in Justice Quarterly by Michael Vaughn and Linda Smith, in which they assert that the quality of correctional health care is suspect in correctional settings, and that an examination of one jail's problems with health care delivery revealed a “penal harm medicine” movement. We call into question such an assertion, claim that the penal harm medicine hypothesis cannot be proven by the data presented by Vaughn and Smith, and state that many of their conclusions are tenuous and harmful to correctional health professionals. We offer an analysis of their claims and suggest a more balanced view of correctional health care.

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Recommended Citation

Michael S. Vaughn, Linda G. Smith. (1999) Questioning authorized truth: Resisting the pull of the policy audience and fostering critical scholarship in correctional medical research—A reply to kerle et al.. Justice Quarterly 16:4, pages 907-918.