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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