COVID-19 AND PRISONS

摘要

As progressive prosecutors, we read "COVID-19 Exposes a Broken Prison System," by Justin Berk, Alexandria Macmadu, Eliana Kaplowitz, and Josiah Rich (Issues, Fall 2020), with great interest. COVID-19's rapid spread in prisons and jails across the nation has created epidemics within the pandemic. As the authors note, as of August, 44 of the 50 largest outbreaks nationwide have been in jails or prisons. In San Quentin State Prison in California, for example, in the course of less than two months the prison went from no cases of the virus to a 59% infection rate for those incarcerated there.