Date of Graduation
5-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Degree Level
Undergraduate
Department
History
Advisor/Mentor
Starks, Trish
Committee Member
Daily, Ruby Ray
Second Committee Member
Pritchard, Eric
Third Committee Member
Brown, Mitch
Abstract
The Arkansas State Penitentiary provides a case study for medical care in prisons during a transformational period. Isolation and state non-involvement in Arkansas allowed the creation of an independent culture in which harrowing abuses flourished. Medical providers could be prisoners themselves, operating the hospital and blood bank creating a complicated hierarchy. By examining medical provisions at the Cummins and Tucker Prison Farms during the 1960s to 1970s, this thesis reveals a system where the lines between treatment and torture and medical practitioner and imprisoned were blurred.
Keywords
Prison history; Arkansas history; Southern prison history; Medical history
Citation
Marr, G. E. (2025). The Weaponization of Medicine in Arkansas Prison Farms, 1960s-1970s. History Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/histuht/24
