INSIDE AND OUTSIDE PRISON: HEALTH, CARE AND THE CRISIS OF THE WELFARE STATE

At a time when the welfare state and universal healthcare appear to be in deep crisis, the prisons emerge as privileged vantage points on processes of exclusion. The panel explores how the prison system does not merely contain marginality but amplifies it: health inequalities accumulate during detention and persist after release, when fragile care networks risk turning into institutional abandonment. What is to be done?