New issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons features writings on the (mis)management of COVID-19 by Canadian prison authorities
Today, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) launched Volume 29, Number 1 & 2 – a double-issue assembled during the course of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that threatened the health and prematurely ended the lives of scores of people, including prisoners. The article section of this issue features peer-reviewed contributions on a host of problems that existed in prisons prior to the pandemic such as the challenges prisoners face when coping with being disconnected from partners, family and friends, being subject to austere conditions of confinement including in segregation units that go by other names, and miscarriages of justice. The Response and Prisoners’ Struggles sections of this issue include several contributions documenting the impact of measures instituted by Canadian carceral state entities to prevent and manage the spread of COVID-19 behind prison walls. Some of the prisoner solidarity and mutual aid initiatives that have supported current and former prisoners in Canada profiled in this issue also provide a snapshot of the horrific treatment endured by criminalized people during the pandemic.
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