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Thinking Outside the Cell
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Baker's Dozen Problems
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COVID-19 has penetrated many prisons in the USA, Canada, Brazil, Italy, India,
Russia,
Britain,
Australia 'et al'.
Lawyers in the U.S. have lodged 'statements of claim' against pertinent state
and municipal government prisons seeking damages on behalf of adversely affected
inmates for failing to take
adequate remedial actions resulting in patent breaches of inmates' human rights
U.S.A.
A State-by-State Look at Coronavirus in
Prisons - The Marshall Project
COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal and
State Prisons - JAMA Network - 8 July 2020
Coronavirus deaths and infection rates
higher in US prisons than general population, analysis finds
- CNN - 9 July 2020
"As
the pandemic threatens the lives of those behind bars, the country must
confront a system that has never had rehabilitation as its priority."
COVID-19 outbreaks at jails and prisons should make us rethink
incarceration -
Washington Post -
June 25, 2020
Split 5 to 4, Supreme Court Rules for California Jail Over Virus Measures
- The New York Times - 5 Aug 2020
How
U.S. Prisons Became Ground Zero for Covid-19
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JUSTICE REFORM
TAYLOR
MILLER THOMAS
25-June-2020
As
COVID-19 Ravaged the Prisons, Officials Failed to Take Sanctioned Actions
- ACLU
SoCal Communications & Media Advocacy - 17 May 2020
About 20% of N.J. Prisoners Could Be Freed
to Avoid Virus - The New York Times - 5 Aug 2020
'People
are sick all around me': inside the coronavirus catastrophe in California
prisons
- The Guardian -
Sam Levin in
Los Angeles
-
21 May 2020
Why women dying in prisons are among the
less visible victims of Covid-19 - The
Guardian -
Cary
Aspinwall, Keri Blakinger and Joseph Neff -
2 Jul 2020
CARES
Act: What Does the COVID-19 Relief Bill Do to Protect Incarcerated People?
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FAMM USA
- April 2020
Failing Grades: USA’s
responses to COVID-19 in Jails & Prisons
-
Emily Widra
and Dylan Hayre - June 25, 2020
Prisons and jails are
coronavirus epicenters – they were once designed to prevent disease outbreaks
-
April 2020 -
Ashley Rubin
- University of Hawaii
COVID-19
"Jails and prisons often lack basic
hygiene products,
have minimal
health care services and
are overcrowded.
Social distancing is nearly impossible except in solitary confinement, but that
poses its own dangers
to mental and physical health.
70% of
inmates test positive for coronavirus at Lompoc federal prison
L A Times -
RICHARD WINTON,
STAFF WRITER -
MAY 9, 2020
"More than 14,500 inmates in various prison facilities across the country
(USA) have
tested positive along with more than 4,000 staff, according to the Marshall
Project prison tracker. Forty-five inmates have died in federal prisons,
according to the federal Bureau of Prisons."
Freed From Prison,
Dead from COVID-19, Not Even Counted - The Marshall Project
As COVID-19 Measures Grow, Prison Oversight
Falls - The Marshall Project
"We now have no idea what’s going on inside."
What COVID-19 Prison Outbreaks Could Teach
Us About Herd Immunity - The Marshall Project -
6 Jan 2020
USA States Continue to Face Large Shortfalls Due to COVID-19 Effects
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Canada
Isolating prisoners to stop coronavirus spread violates human rights: ombudsman
- Colin Perkel The Canadian
Press - April 24, 2020
"360 positive tests in
Canadian prisons with 2 deaths as at 10 July 2020"
Canada's prison ombudsman calls COVID isolation 'extremely concerning'
-
The Canadian Press
- April 24, 2020
Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Linked to Canadian Carceral Institutions
- TPCP -
29 May 2020
Hunger Strikers at the
Milton Jail Demand Improved Living Conditions and an End to Human Rights Abuses
- TPCP - 8 July 2020
If Canada is serious
about confronting systemic racism, we must abolish prisons
- The Conversation - July 7, 2020
Why
some Canadian prisoners should be released during the coronavirus pandemic
- The Conversation -
March 18, 2020
Prisons petri dishes for coronavirus - Revolving-door system of
people on remand also poses risk to community at large - The
Chronicle Herald, Canada - 4 March 2020
Brazil
In Brazil's overcrowded jails, COVID-19
breeds fear and calls for change - The Jakarta Post -
June 16, 2020
COVID-19 in Brazilian prisons: Pandemic or a
necropolitical project? - openDemocracy - 7 July 2020
COVID-19: BRAZIL DENOUNCED IN UN AND OAS
OVER IMMINENT “CATASTROPHE” IN PRISONS -
Conectas Direitos Humanos - 23 June 2020
Italy
The COVID-19 Epidemic and the Prison System
in Italy - SAGE Journals - 6 July 2020
Prisoners in a pandemic: We should think
about detainees during Covid-19 outbreak
- ScienceDirect - 3 June 2020
India
48 inmates at Kashmir jail test positive for
COVID-19 - ANADOLU AGENCY
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15 July 2020
Covid-19 in prison: Is India doing enough?
- livemint - 7 July 2020
Russia
Locked Up During Lockdown: Prisoners in
Russia and the World During the Pandemic - The Wilson Centre -
10 June 2020
Britain
Shocking spike in Covid-19 jail suicides should end Britain’s obsession with
imprisonment
- Chris Sweeney - 28
May 2020
The coronavirus crisis
in Britain's prisons
- The Conversation -
2 Jul 2020
"But in prisons, lockdown meant an
end to an already heavily restrictive way of life. There were no visits
allowed, education programmes were paused and prisoners were confined to
their cells for more than 23 hours a day, something close to solitary
confinement.
We need far more
coronavirus tests in British prisons
- The Conversation - Eric Allison - 30 June 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and prisons - England and Wales
Inaction and slow response contributed to the spread of COVID-19 in UK
prisons - Loughborough University - 4 June 2020
Australia
Prisoners held in solitary confinement for
nearly two months challenge WA Government in court - ABC News -
11 Aug 2020
As the coronavirus rages in prisons, ethical
issues of crime and punishment become more compelling
- The Conversation - 6 Aug 2020
Prisoner lives are still at risk of COVID-19
-
Australia:
Interview with ex-prison inmate, Damien Linnane
10 May 2020 Paul
Gregoire
Sydney Criminal
Lawyers
Coronavirus must not enter prisons - NSW Health
Media Release - March 20, 2020
COVID-19: A catalyst for rethinking how we punish offenders? -
Monash University - 5 May 2020
Australia's overcrowded prisons could struggle to control coronavirus
- The Guardian - 19 March 2020
Coronavirus is a ticking time bomb for the Australian prison system -
The Guardian - 26 March 2020
The Human Rights Law Centre - Explainer: Prisons and COVID-19
Australian States facing debt blowout due to COVID, Moody's warns
- The Age - 22 July 20
Hundreds have died in US prisons
from Covid-19. Will Australia act before it's too late? -
The Guardian -
30 July 2020
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