Criminal Justice Reform Series [Part II] – BPR Interviews: Sharon Dolovich
July 9, 2021
In this installment of our criminal justice reform series, we meet Sharon Dolovich, Professor of law and Director of the UCLA Prison Law and Policy Program. Professor Dolovich started the which has aggregated Department of Corrections data concerning the impact of COVID-19 on incarcerated people. The data covers infection rates and deaths in state and federal prisons as well as jails nationwide. She has written extensively about the role of decarceration in dedensifying prisons and jails and mitigating the risk of COVID-19 to incarcerated people. In 2018, Professor Dolovich published a book on prison conditions and the eighth amendment titled the New Criminal Justice Thinking; 31,000 copies have been downloaded. In 2005, Cornell University’s Ethics and Public Life Program bestowed its Young Scholar Award upon her.