Fester: Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster
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 dehumanization, fear, and ignorance, Fester explains how carceral cruelty also threatens the health and well-being of all Californians. This book stands as a monument to the brave coalition of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones, along with activists, doctors, journalists, and lawyers, who fought to shed light on one of the darkest times in the Golden State’s correctional system.
 
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Fester: Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster
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 dehumanization, fear, and ignorance, Fester explains how carceral cruelty also threatens the health and well-being of all Californians. This book stands as a monument to the brave coalition of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones, along with activists, doctors, journalists, and lawyers, who fought to shed light on one of the darkest times in the Golden State’s correctional system.
 
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Fester: Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster

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

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

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

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Overview

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 dehumanization, fear, and ignorance, Fester explains how carceral cruelty also threatens the health and well-being of all Californians. This book stands as a monument to the brave coalition of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones, along with activists, doctors, journalists, and lawyers, who fought to shed light on one of the darkest times in the Golden State’s correctional system.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520386129
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 02/13/2024
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 306
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Hadar Aviram is Thomas E. Miller Professor at University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She is author of Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment and Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole and coeditor of The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice.
 
Chad Goerzen is a Senior Research Scientist with the US Army Rotorcraft Project.

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations 
List of Tables 
Preface and Acknowledgments 

Introduction 
1 • Triggers and Vulnerabilities 
2 • Petri Dish 
3 • Bottleneck 
4 • Elixir 
5 • Incubator 
6 • The House Always Wins 
7 • Fear and Loathing 
8 • The Next Plague 

Notes 
Index 
 
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