MNS Disorders in Guyana's Jails, 1825 to the present day

圭亚那监狱中的 MNS 紊乱，1825 年至今

• 批准号: ES/S000569/1
• 负责人: Clare Anderson
• 金额: $ 128.4万
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS000569%2F1
• 关键词: MNS; Disorders; Guyana; Jails; 1825

This project will research a critical but entirely neglected aspect of the prison system in Guyana, which certainly contributes to violence and instability: the definition, extent, experience and treatment of MNS disorders among inmates and the people who work with them. A UK-Guyana team will co-create new academic perspectives from Economic and Social History and Criminology, and use them to produce policy-relevant materials on mental health, cognitive impairment, addiction and substance abuse among prisoners and prison officers. The research will be shared with the project's partner, the Guyana Prison Service, which has an appetite for change and is seeking to effect transformations in prisoner well-being, health and education, during a time of unprecedented penal crisis. The project will not only model a new interdisciplinary way of working in this field, it will impact on prisoner and officer well-being and education, and on the rehabilitation of inmates. The project's perspective is historical, social and cultural. It covers the period from 1825, when the British opened the colony's first jail in Georgetown, to the present day, following Guyana's independence in 1966. It is rooted in the hypothesis that the existence of MNS disorders in jails today can be traced back to the British colonial period, and that they cannot be disconnected from the country's history as a sugar colony that employed and controlled indigenous people (Amerindians), enslaved Africans and indentured Indian labourers. Empire created particular forms of trauma, shaped demography and religious practice, and instituted patterns of population control including through institutionalisation. We seek to render this history actively part of the process of change, by connecting new historical work to new criminological research on Guyana since independence. We are especially interested in assessing and evaluating different definitions and management regimes for people afflicted with MNS disorders in Guyana's jails, among the colony/ country's multi-ethnic and multi-religious population of indigenous, African and Asian descent, and including women and juveniles.Guyana has serious resource constraints; in terms of GDP it is the second poorest country (after Haiti) in the southern hemisphere. Following the destruction of the country's largest jail during a prison riot in 2017, the challenges facing Guyana's prison system are unparalleled in the Caribbean region. This project is urgent and timely. The research team will conduct research on colonial-era and post-1966 archives and records, and conduct focus groups, workshop and interviews with prison personnel, communities living near prisons, and prisoners' families. The project seeks to enhance academic, practitioner and public understanding of MNS disorders in the jails context; build robust relationships between academics, practitioners and policy makers; and stimulate behavioural change among key actors. Its impacts will be to enhance prison security, improve the administration of criminal justice, and respect prisoner well-being, rights and equality, whilst protecting the public from people deemed 'dangerous'.

该项目将研究圭亚那监狱系统的一个关键但完全被忽视的方面，这肯定会导致暴力和不稳定：囚犯和与他们一起工作的人中MNS疾病的定义，程度，经验和治疗。一个英国-圭亚那小组将从经济和社会历史和犯罪学中共同创造新的学术观点，并利用它们来制作关于囚犯和监狱官员的心理健康，认知障碍，成瘾和药物滥用的政策相关材料。该研究将与项目的合作伙伴圭亚那监狱管理局分享，圭亚那监狱管理局渴望变革，并正在寻求在前所未有的刑罚危机时期实现囚犯福利、健康和教育方面的转变。该项目不仅将在这一领域树立一种新的跨学科工作方式，还将对囚犯和官员的福利和教育以及囚犯的康复产生影响。该项目的视角是历史的、社会的和文化的。它涵盖了从1825年英国在乔治敦开设该殖民地殖民地第一所监狱到1966年圭亚那独立后的今天的这段时间。它植根于这样的假设：当今监狱中MNS疾病的存在可以追溯到英国殖民时期，并且它们不能与该国作为雇用和控制土著人民（美洲印第安人）、奴役的制糖殖民地的历史脱节。非洲人和印度契约劳工。帝国创造了特定形式的创伤，塑造了人口和宗教习俗，并制定了人口控制模式，包括通过制度化。我们力求使这段历史积极成为变革进程的一部分，将新的历史工作与圭亚那独立以来新的犯罪学研究联系起来。我们特别感兴趣的是评估和评价对圭亚那监狱中患有MNS疾病的人的不同定义和管理制度，这些人属于殖民地/国家的土著、非洲和亚洲血统的多种族和多宗教人口，包括妇女和青少年，圭亚那资源严重不足;就国内生产总值而言，它是南半球第二个最贫穷的国家（仅次于海地）。在2017年监狱骚乱期间，该国最大的监狱被摧毁，圭亚那监狱系统面临的挑战在加勒比地区是无与伦比的。这个项目是紧迫和及时的。研究小组将对殖民时代和1966年后的档案和记录进行研究，并与监狱工作人员、监狱附近社区和囚犯家属进行重点小组、讲习班和访谈。该项目旨在加强学术界、从业人员和公众对监狱中MNS疾病的了解;在学术界、从业人员和政策制定者之间建立强有力的关系;并刺激关键行为者改变行为。其影响将是加强监狱安全，改善刑事司法管理，尊重囚犯的福祉，权利和平等，同时保护公众免受被认为是“邪恶”的人的伤害。

项目成果

Forum: histories of incarceration in Guyana

论坛：圭亚那的监禁历史

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies
• 作者: Anderson C

Introduction: Celebrating the Centenary of the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Howard Journal

简介：庆祝霍华德刑法改革联盟和霍华德杂志一百周年

• DOI: 10.1111/hojo.12451
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
• 作者: ANDERSON C

Mental, Neurological and Substance Abuse Disorders in Guyana's Jails: a multi-disciplinary introduction

圭亚那监狱中的精神、神经和药物滥用疾病：多学科介绍

• DOI: 10.29311/lwps.202143748
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: LIAS Working Paper Series
• 作者: Anderson C

Immigration and Incarceration in Post-Emancipation British Guiana

英属圭亚那解放后的移民和监禁

• DOI: 10.29311/lwps.202143751
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: LIAS Working Paper Series
• 作者: Adams E

Coloniality and the Criminal Justice System: Empire and its Legacies in Guyana

殖民主义与刑事司法制度：圭亚那的帝国及其遗产

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies
• 作者: Anderson C