Doctor of Ed. Formerly: Research and Policy Fellow at UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project. Now writing a book about the Pandemic of Punishment.
Mar 7, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD: #COVID-19 lays bare the ways in which mass incarceration endangers public health for all of us.
A jail or prison is a closed-circuit environment like a cruise ship, but where many people arrived with communicable illness that makes them vulnerable, buildings are crumbling, rats and roaches, people crowded on top of one another with little sanitation.
