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Occupational Justice
Occupational justice is a person’s right to engage in occupations with a purpose such as; activities of daily living (ADLs), instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), rest and sleep, education, work, play, and social participation without being deprived of fair opportunities (Stadnyk & Wilcock, 2010). As a society we strive for occupational justice for all regardless of a person’s identity, values, and beliefs. Although, certain communities may feel that they have faced unfair occupational justice. A recognized group that commonly face occupational injustices are prisoners. Prisoners are defined as people that are serving one year or a longer sentence in prisons rather than jails for the crimes that he or she has …show more content…

is known for having the highest incarceration rate for prisoners in the criminal system at 707 prisoners per 100,00 people (Quigley & Godchaux, 2015). Quigley and Godchaux (2015) state that, “2.2 million people are in local jail, state and federal prisons (p. 362). Many prisoners face injustice including abuse, mistreatment, and a lack of safety for mental and physical health. As a result of being a prisoner limitations would likely affect the individual’s engagement in occupations that he or she desires (AOTA, 2014). Specific occupations that a prisoner could be isolated from is social participation, leisure, work, and education (AOTA, 2014). For the occupation of social participation, prisoners who are in solitary confinement are restricted from interacting with other …show more content…

As the journal article, Prison Human Rights Advocacy, states “contact with the outside world is generally considered to be an essential part of a prisoner’s reintegration into society” (Quigley & Godchaux, 2015, p. 377). In addition, the prison system offers very limited choices regarding what prisoners can choose from when they decide what type of work and education they want to partake in (Quigley & Godchaux, 2015).
Impact of injustice on the community’s engagement in occupation. As a community of prisoners, they most likely have faced occupational marginalization. Occupational marginalization is when a certain group is restricted from participating in occupations that society finds valuable, such as work or education (Stadnyk & Wilcock, 2010). Therefore, prisoners may find it more challenging to partake in work or education once released from

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Issues of Social and Economic Justice Throughout my experience in the Panhandle Promise Project, I had the opportunity to closely examine the injustice many of the clients experience based on their race, economic status, or in the criminal justice system. Since the starting of America’s war on drugs longer sentencing for drug offences that in violent crimes, there has been an increase of the number of minorities who are currently in prison (Wormer, Kaplan, and Juby (2012). For the children having a parent incarcerated affects them in several different ways, such as having a higher risk of being place in foster care (Andersen and Wildeman, 2014) , poor school performance (Eddy et al., 2014), food insecurity (Turney, 2014c), antisocial behavioral problems (Jarjoura et al., 2011f). For women who have been release from prison new barriers limit the assistance they will received, the ineligibility for food stamps (Travis, 2002), and in some cases the loss of their children custody (Welsh, 2014b).

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They have become alienated by society, and are strangers to their friends and family. The psychological impact of incarcerating an innocent or undeserving individual can be detrimental. Post-victimization disorders such as post acute stress disorder and PTSD can cause emotional detachment, despair, hostility, and increased risk of various phobias (Polifroni, 2018). Unwarranted subjectivity to extreme punishment and condemnation leaves victims with a host of potential social, emotional, and psychological deficits including distrust, dependance on institutions, diminished self-worth, post-traumatic stress reactions and more (Haney, 2002). The process of being incarcerated brings about several psychological adaptations, brought about by the extreme demands of living in prison.

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They have no control over their ‘front’ as they would always be performing, even daily tasks like sleeping and eating in the presence of their inmates and supervisors, they are never truly alone. “The barrier that total institutions place between the inmate and the wider world marks the first curtailment of self…membership automatically disrupts role scheduling, since the inmate’s separation from the wider world lasts around the clock and may continue for years” (Goffman, 1961: 14). Therefore their role in society diminishes and what once was an individual identity is replaced with a devalued self-image. Stigma “the situation of the individual who is disqualified from full social acceptance” (Goffman, 1963: 9) is another concept of Goffman’s where individuals are stigmatised by society for being different and not fitting into the ‘normal’ category. In his book ‘Stigma’ the first chapter describes the three types of stigma, the first stigma of physique “abominations of the body – the various physical deformities” (Goffman, 1963: 14), second, stigma of character attributes “blemishes of individual character perceived as weak will, domineering or unnatural passions, treacherousness and rigid beliefs, and dishonesty, these being inferred from a known record of, for example, mental disorder, imprisonment, addiction, alcoholism, homosexuality, unemployment, suicide attempts, and radical political behaviour” (1963: 14), and lastly stigma of group identity “the tribal stigma of race, nation, and religion, these being stigma that can be transmitted through lineages and equally contaminate all members of a family” (1963: 14).

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