RT Book
T1 Fester: carceral permeability and California's Covid-19 correctional disaster
A1 Aviram, Hadar
A1 Goerzen, Chad Lyman 1979-
LA English
PP Oakland
PB University of California Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866040065
AB "The COVID-19 disaster in California's prisons stands out as the worst medical prison catastrophe in the state's history. Three-quarters of the state's prison population was infected; 264 incarcerated people and 50 staff members died. In Fester, authors Hadar Aviram and Chad Goerzen expose the COVID-19 correctional experience through hundreds of first-person accounts, months of courtroom observations, years of carefully collected quantitative COVID-19 data, and a wealth of policy documents. Already vulnerable from decades of overcrowding and abysmal healthcare, California's prison population bore the brunt of the COVID-19 horror. Fester bears witness to the immense suffering we bring on ourselves and our fellow humans through dehumanization, fear, and ignorance, and stands as a monument for a brave coalition of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, family members and loved ones, advocates and activists, doctors and journalists, who worked to shed light on one of the darkest times in the Golden State's correctional system"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN KFC613
SN 9780520386112
SN 9780520386129
K1 COVID-19 (Disease) : Law and legislation : California
K1 Prisoners : Legal status, laws, etc : California
K1 COVID-19 (Disease) : Health aspects : California
K1 Prisoners : Health and hygiene : California