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Mental health and prisons

The Thin Blue Line between Care and Ethics of Care in an Indian Prison

February 4, 2025

Through her recent work on a public interest litigation, Maitreyi’s understanding of mental health in prisons saw a shift. What happens when care turns paternalistic? Can the promise of freedom be used as a tool to negotiate/manipulate? Are our imagined alternatives to this system any better? This interview is an attempt to make sense of some of these questions.

How do you learn to work in a prison?

March 4, 2024

Prisons are taken for granted within ‘civilised’ societies; we often do not think of the what and why of the institution. Often, we find ourselves at one of three points on a continuum: being oblivious and uninterested, feeling secure in knowing that there is a prison, or being concerned about the people who reach prison.

Volume 005: Crime

Does care have to be at the periphery if crime is at the centre?

January 30, 2024

By a feminist approach, I specifically mean the ethics of care articulated by the philosopher Virginia Held, which understands that people are intrinsically interrelated, as opposed to the model of the independent, self-sufficient individual of liberal theory.

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