COVID-19 pandemic exposes how little we know about prison conditions globally
—— Authors: Vicki Chartrand, Associate Professor, Sociology, Bishop’s University; Dawn Moore, Professor, Criminology, Carleton University; Jose A. Brandariz, Associate Professor of Law and Criminology, Universidade da Coruna, and Maximo Sozzo, Professor, Sociology and Criminology, Universidad Nacional del Litoral Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky once famously said: “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” And yet most of us know very little about prisons. In fact, gaining entry or even insight into prisons as an outsider is quite rare. In Canada, o...
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