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COVID-19 and The Law

COVID-19 and The Law

Law and Policy to Address Basic Needs and Marginalized Populations

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Prisons and Incarcerated Populations

Resources

  • NY Times: Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide (June 30, 2020)
  • The Marshall Project: Coronavirus and Prisons: A Toxic Combination — When Purell is Contraband, How Do You Contain Coronavirus? (March 6, 2020)
  • The Marshall Project: “I Begged Them To Let Me Die”: How Federal Prisons Became Coronavirus Death Traps (June 18, 2020)
  • Tobby Anderson v. State of New Mexico — Legal Groups Bring Class Action Lawsuit Against State of New Mexico for Failure to Project Incarcerated People From Deadly Threat of Coronavirus (Aug. 24, 2020)
  • HuffPost: Governors Are Too Cowardly To Solve The Coronavirus Outbreak In Prisons (Apr. 10, 2020)
  • NY Times: ‘Jails Are Petri Dishes’: Inmates Freed as the Virus Spreads Behind Bars (May 20, 2020)
  • Detroit Free Press: Stimulus helps formerly incarcerated Detroiters during COVID-19 (July 31, 2020)
  • Justia | Verdict: COVID Comes to Federal Death Row—It Is Time to Stop the Madness (Dec 23, 2020)
  • SSRN: Mass Incarceration, Meet COVID-19 (Jan 15, 2021)

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Blog Posts

Decarceration and the Coronavirus Pandemic

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, many hoped and expected that the pandemic would serve as a natural catalyst ...
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