"We Must Decarcerate Across the Country, Then Fix the Prison System" by Adelina Iftene

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We Must Decarcerate Across the Country, Then Fix the Prison System

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Adelina Iftene, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law

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News Article

Publication Date

4-20-2020

Keywords

public health,
prison health,
penal law and policy,
COVID-19,
decarceration,
prison reform

Disciplines

Criminal Law,
Health Law and Policy,
Human Rights Law,
Law and Politics,
Law and Society and
Law Enforcement and Corrections

Abstract

COVID-19 is a match in a tinderbox created by years of overcrowding in appalling conditions in our prisons. We have a responsibility to do better.

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Adelina Iftene, “We must decarcerate across the country, then fix the prison system” (20 April 2020), online: Policy Options < https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2020/we-must-decarcerate-across-the-country-then-fix-the-prison-system/ > [perma.cc/8LC5-A242].