News Brief - Covid in Prisons: No One Cares Until Things Start to Burn
Added 2021-02-10 17:31:57 +0000 UTCIn this public News Brief, we discuss how American media's lack of coverage and general. indifference to the Covid pandemic ravaging prisons and jails makes "riots" inevitable. Our guest, Patrice Daniels, is an activist currently incarcerated in Illinois state prison in Joliet, IL.
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Guest
Patrice Daniels, activist and revolutionary who has been in Illinois state prison since he was 18.
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Show Notes
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
February 5, 2021 | Prison Policy Institute
1 in 5 Prisoners in the U.S. Has Had COVID-19
Beth Schwartzapfel, Katie Park and Andrew DeMillo | December 18, 2020 | The Marshall Project
How much have COVID-19 releases changed prison and jail populations?
Emily Widra | February 3, 2021 | Prison Policy Institute
Parole boards approved fewer releases in 2020 than in 2019, despite the raging pandemic
Tiana Herring | February 3, 2021 | Prison Policy Institute
New Surge of COVID Is Spreading “Like Wildfire” in Illinois Prisons
Brian Dolinar | January 30, 2021 | truthout
Mass Incarceration, Meet COVID-19
Sharon Dolovich | November 16, 2020 | University of Chicago Law Review
Why prisons and jails have become COVID hotspots
Edmund L. Andrews | September 23, 2020 | Stanford
Report: 1 in 6 Chicago COVID-19 Cases Can Be Tied to Cook County Jail
Matt Masterson | June 4, 2020 | WTTW
Dozens of reports from inside Cook County Jail paint a grim picture as COVID-19 cases soar
Maya Dukmasova | April 28, 2020 | The Appeal
73% Of Inmates At An Ohio Prison Test Positive For Coronavirus
Bill Chappell | April 20, 2020 | NPR
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Transcript
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