Fester (eBook)

Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster

Hadar Aviram (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
306 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38613-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 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.
 

Inhalt

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 
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.3.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Carceral Studies • correctional reform • Counterfactual Analysis • county jails • Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation • Health Care • incarcerated people • overcrowding • prisoner release • prison workers • public health in California prison system • San Quentin
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38613-2 / 0520386132
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38613-6 / 9780520386136