Exploring Health Justice and Human Rights for Incarcerated Women: Promoting Justice-Involved Women’s Well-Being
Keywords:
Health Justice, Incarcerated Women, Human Rights, Inter-sectionality, Gender-sensitive PolicyAbstract
Incarcerated women face health disparities, human rights violations, and systemic neglect due to race, gender, socioeconomic status, and trauma. This paper discusses the need for health justice in correctional systems with special attention to health inequities experienced by justice-involved women. Intersectionality provides an essential framework to analyze how diverse and interlocking forms of discrimination intersect to affect these women’s access to healthcare, mental health, reproductive rights, and social reintegration. It is quite essential to promote holistic, gender sensitive, and rights-based interventions to maintain dignity and equality in care. This needs to prioritize policy reforms, trauma-informed practices, and communitybased alternatives to incarceration that increase well-being and advance health justice equitably. By acknowledging the intrinsic value of incarcerated women and calling for structural change, it is possible to fashion correctional facilities into sites of rehabilitation and justice.
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