Carceral community in the time of COVID-19: Isolation, adaption, and predation

State failures to protect prisoners from COVID-19 have made prisons key “hotspots” of infection, particularly in the “new mass carceral zone” of Latin America. In Guatemala, which has the 3rd most overcrowded prison system in the world, such failure was a tragedy foretold. Longstanding hostility tow...

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Main Author: Fontes, Anthony (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Punishment & society
Year: 2023, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 1062-1079
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Keywords:
Carceral geography
Central America
Covid-19
Ethnography
Prisons
carceral community

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