Prisoners' Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners' Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972-1985 by Oisín Wall
Prisoners' Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners' Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972-1985

Oisín Wall

Prisoners' Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners' Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972-1985

Oisín Wall

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In the early 1970s Irish prisons were overcrowded - there were few rehabilitation programs, medical care was limited, psychiatric care was practically nonexistent, and brutality was commonplace. The Irish prisoners unionized, igniting a movement t...

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