Sentencing Law and Policy: Prison Policy Initiative reports on "Mass Incarceration, COVID-19, and Community Spread"
Prison Policy Initiative reports on "Mass Incarceration, COVID-19, and Community Spread" Gregory Hooks and Wendy Sawyer with the Prison Policy Initiative has authored this important new report titled "Mass Incarceration, COVID-19, and Community Spread." The full report is today's must-read, and here are parts of its introduction and conclusion: In 2020, a decades-long American policy failure — mass incarceration — collided with a brand new American policy failure: the mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic. After decades of needlessly locking up ever more people in jails and prisons, stat...
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