Prison, Punishment, and Premature Death: Group-differentiated Health Impacts of Incarceration during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Czochanski, Valentina M
Czochanski, Valentina M
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. correctional and detention facilities were vulnerable to the spread of disease, leaving people incarcerated within these facilities particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. This project explores how the U.S. carceral system creates, reifies, intensifies and reflects health inequities in broader society by asking: How does COVID-19 illuminate the collateral health consequences of carceral punishment? What was the impact of COVID-19 on incarcerated individuals? and What does that mean in relation to disproportionate health effects within correctional facilities? With a case study of Vermont correctional facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, this project uses a mixed-methods approach including a series of in-depth interviews with Vermont prison staff to explore the collateral health consequences of carceral punishment.
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2021-01-01