监狱死亡:对近亲通知和遗体处置的透明度提高
Yoshiko Iwai1, Michael Forrest Behne2,3, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein2
1University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 340 MacNider Hall Campus, 333 South Columbia Street, Box 7240, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7240, USA. yoshiko_iwai@med.unc.edu.
Health & justice
|September 12, 2023
概括
关于监禁人员通知近亲 (NOK) 的政策.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 犯罪学 犯罪学
- 卫生政策 卫生政策
背景情况:
- 关于近亲 (NOK) 通知和监禁人员遗体处置的政策在美国监狱系统中不一致.
- 这些政策缺乏明确性会在关键时期影响家庭和行政流程.
研究的目的:
- 收集有关美国监狱设施内近亲 (NOK) 通知和遗体处置的操作政策的数据.
- 识别不同惩戒制度中现有政策的差异和差距.
主要方法:
- 来自美国53个监狱系统的公开可用的操作政策分析.
- 包括联邦监狱局,移民和海关执法局,50个州的监狱系统和华盛顿特区的监狱.
主要成果:
- 大约70%的监狱系统拥有可访问的NOK通知和遗体处置政策.
- 关于通知的时间限制,指定的联系人以及未索取遗体的程序,发现了重大差距.
- 一些系统缺乏任何关于这些关键问题的可访问政策.
结论:
- 在美国监狱系统中,对NOK通知和对被监禁人员遗体处置的政策存在相当大的差异.
- 建议对这些政策进行标准化,以促进公平,并改善监狱和卫生系统与NOK之间的沟通.
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