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Fester

Carceral Permeability and California's Covid-19 Correctional Disaster

Hadar Aviram 

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Description

The mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic in California's prisons stands out as the state's worst-ever medical catastrophe in a carceral setting. Fester offers a cultural history of this correctional disaster through first-person accounts, courtroom observations, policy documents, and years of carefully collected quantitative data. Bearing witness to the immense suffering wrought on people behind bars through dehumanization, fear, and ignorance, Fester explains how carceral cruelty also threatens the health and well-being of all Californians. This book stands as a monument to the brave coalition of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones, along with activists, doctors, journalists, and lawyers, who fought to shed light on one of the darkest times in the Golden State's correctional system.

Product Details

PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publish DateFebruary 13, 2024
Pages306
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780520386129
Dimensions8.9 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches | 0.9 pounds

About the Author

Hadar Aviram is Thomas E. Miller Professor at University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She is author of Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment and Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole and coeditor of The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice.

Chad Goerzen is a Senior Research Scientist with the US Army Rotorcraft Project.

Reviews

"Aviram and Goerzen argue that mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic in California's prisons was catastrophic for incarcerated persons. They offer a cultural history through first-person accounts, courtroom observations, policy documents, and collected quantitative data; they find immense suffering wrought on people behind bars through dehumanization, fear, and ignorance."-- "Law & Social Inquiry"

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