The essential — and dangerous — work prisoners do
Incarcerated people respond to pandemics, wildfires, avian flu outbreaks, mudslides and more. Image credit: Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images Interview April 23, 2021 Last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic swept through nursing homes, exhausted medical supplies and sent the country into lockdown, prison officials gave incarcerated people their marching orders: Manufacture hand sanitizer, sew face masks, transport dead bodies, dig graves. The workers toiled in crowded factories, overflowing morgues and inside their own prisons, where they often lacked access to essent...
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