Professor Dean Caivano’s new article, “Prison Suicide and the Politics of Neglect: Slow Death, Necropolitics, and Carceral Governance,” has been published in Contemporary Justice Review. The article examines suicide in Pennsylvania prisons as a feature of carceral governance rather than as a series of isolated institutional failures. Drawing on mortality data, state dashboards, litigation, and qualitative case studies, it shows how administrative practices, psychiatric neglect, misclassification, delayed reporting, and routine disciplinary procedures can transform preventable deaths into bureaucratic silences. Its central finding is that meaningful suicide prevention requires confronting the institutional conditions that render vulnerability visible without producing sustained intervention.
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