Article Review on Article Review on “Criminal Justice Reform as Hiv and Tb Prevention in African Prisons” by Katherine W. Todyrs & Joseph J. Amon

Article Review Assignment: Article Review on “Criminal Justice Reform as HIV and TB prevention in African Prisons” by Katherine W. Todyrs & Joseph J. Amon

April 13, 2013

Todrys, K.W., and Amon J.J. (2012). Criminal justice reform as HIV and TB prevention in African prisons. PLoS Medicine, 9(5), 1-5. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001215

In their article, “Criminal Justice Reform as HIV and TB prevention in African Prisons” (May, 2012), Katherine W. Todyrs and Joseph J. Amon address that Arican prison condition should be ameliorated in order to maintain human rights and to prevent transmission of certain diseases such as HIV and TB. Both authors work at the Health and Human Rights division at Human Rights Watch; Amon works as the director of the health and human rights division and Todyrs recently completed her research on health in African Prisons. Although the language used in the article contains gender bias and bias from authors’ backgrounds and fails to clearly define few vague terms, they accurately use reliable statistical evidences and organize their ideas in cause and effect and compare and contrast structure to effectively emphasize their arguments.

Summary

Katherine W. Todyrs and Joseph J. Amon, in their article “Criminal Justice Reform as HIV and tuberculosis (TB) prevention in African Prisons”, examine the cause and effects of high vulnerability to HIV and TB incidence in African Prisons. Throughout the article, they mainly compose their arguments in cause and effect structure. The authors first identify the significance of meager conditions in African prisons by comparing estimated HIV and TB infected population in prison to that of non-prison populations. Todyrs and Amon also use statistical evidences about percentages of diseases’ infected population obtained from surveys held in various African Countries to stress the significance of poor sanitation in African prisons. Then they begin to explain the causes of higher HIV and...