Seeking recognition through carceral health care bureaucracy: Analysis of medical care request forms in a County Jail

People experiencing incarceration in the U.S. have a constitutional right to have access to health care. Yet actualizing this right is constrained by the everyday reality of an environment designed to punish and limit autonomy. The principal means for accessing health care in a carceral facility is for an individual to submit a written request, which then gets handled through the jail's bureaucratic processes. In this paper, we provide...