Pandemic Continues to Ravage US Correctional System
November 23, 2020
The devastation inflicted by the coronavirus on US prisons and jails is “both a moral failure and a public health one,” the New York Times editorial board writes, going on to examine possible remedies. In Issues, a group of medical experts details the pandemic’s impact on correctional facilities. They argue that a critical step is to unwind mass incarceration, which they call “one of the greatest structural drivers for public health disparities,” by imprisoning fewer people and releasing those already in the system who pose little threat to the community.