legal frame of reference; end-of-life in prison; actors; good practice; prison studies; institutions
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What a good end-of-life (EOL) means, is a particularly relevant question in the context of confinement and prison. Current laws and regulations demand access to equal treatment and care for those held in custody as for the rest of the population. Most of the questions and issues raised by EOL for those living in liberty also apply to the correctional setting. However, the institutional particularities and logics of the prison create unique barriers and make it difficult in practice to reconciliate concerns in regard to EOL - like care and comfort - with the mandate of corrections - confinement and punishment. In the Swiss prison system, the number of elderly inmates is growing in absolute and relative terms: First, there is a general demographic trend towards an ageing society. Because of the particularity of the prison population (high-risk lifestyles, health problems, negative effects of long-term imprisonment) one may observe a process of “hyper-aging”. Second, people increasingly offend at a later moment in their life. Third, a trend to longer sentences may be observed as an effect of a punitive turn. Fourth, since 2007 the Swiss penal code makes it legal to keep people in confinement for an undetermined duration or for life and therefore some inmates are bound to spend their EOL in prison. Finally, in the light of the recent discussion on palliative care and good dying in society at large, there is a special need to take people into account who die in settings they have not chosen freely and where their choices concerning how and where to die are restricted.Within the prison system, questions on how to respond appropriately to this phenomenon have been raised and discussed, but have scarcely been addressed scientifically. Thus, this project focuses on EOL practices from the perspective of different actors, across the Swiss prison system, and on different levels (the system as a whole, the single prison, and individuals or groups within the prison). In a first step the legal and institutional frame will be analysed so as to understand the context; in a second step, the institutions themselves, their logics and the scope of the phenomenon (EOL in prison) will be examined; the third step will involve exploring and documenting perspectives of different actors; finally, attention will be directed towards emerging institutional responses and arrangements and to questions of good practice. Empirical material will be collected by means of ethnographic and case study methods, involving on-site research within the institutions, interviews and documents. Particular attention will be paid to institutional arrangements, actors and their perspectives, practices and experiences, as well as responsibilities. The research is explorative in orientation and holistic in its approach. It is actor-oriented and focused on institutional ethnography. The project responds to a new and increasing social problem; it aims at producing knowledge in a field that has been until today scarcely studied and will represent a first insight from a Swiss perspective. The project is already the fruit of collaboration between various institutions and aims at outlining “good governance” and “good practice” in the field (prison) and on the topic (EOL). It responds both, to the need of practitioners, as well as to the interest of science.