In the cases of the Vacaville article and Crockett's Letters to the Editor we can see curative violence being enacted through forced medication without regard to how future medication may impact an inmate's ability to stand trial.

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Curative Violence was a term coined by Eunjung Kim to describe the physical and material violence inflicted against disabled people that is justified as a cure. Kim uses the term cure to mean any attempt to lessen or eliminate illness or disability. Curative violence is meant to give voice to the fact that society's ableist obsessions with curing disabled and chronically ill folk can result in further disability, or even death.

Curative Violence

Similar to the usage of the prison industrial complex as a term used to describe the privatization of prisons in the United States and how prisons get monetary benefit from people being incarcerated so they don't have a monetary incentive to actually decrease re-incarceration and have more of a monetary incentive to keep people in prison. The psychiatric industrial complex is a term used to describe how psychiatry creates a space that derives monetary benefit off of having being confined in psychiatric institutions or people continuously needing to access psychiatric care to get medication.

The Psychiatric Industrial Complex

Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027003

Black Disability Politics

 Psychiatric Industrial Complex and Curative Violence

Anderson's letter to the editor made the connections between psychiatric and criminal institutions more explicit by noting that the only reason why state hospitals don't need gun towers overseeing the yard is because they have staff firing psychotropic medication.

Rayford Anderson August 7, 1976 Letter to the Editor

Schalk notes that we should not merely read the connections drawn by the Black Panther newspaper and articles between prisons and psychiatric facilities as oppression analogies and rather, it is important to see that the Panthers understood race, disability, prisons, and psychiatric institutions as inextricably linked - this is also why we see less language around these intuitions being ableist and more around them being generally oppressive.

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