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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
Document Type
News Article
Publication Date
4-20-2020
Keywords
  • public health,
  • prison health,
  • penal law and policy,
  • COVID-19,
  • decarceration,
  • prison reform
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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Citation Information
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].