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Fester: Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster

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Winner of the American Society of Criminology's Michael J. Hindelang Book Award

The mismanagement of the COVID—19 pandemic in California’s prisons stands out as the state’s worst—ever medical catastrophe in a carceral setting. Fester offers a cultural history of this correctional disaster through first—person accounts, courtroom observations, policy documents, and years of carefully collected quantitative data. Bearing witness to the immense suffering wrought on people behind bars through d...