Disaster Capitalism and Health Care in Prison
What happens when the profit motive becomes the determinative factor in the provision of health care and is inserted into the prison? Disaster.
coronavirus pandemic
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Even where interventions are unpopular, the pursuit of a just world cannot be reduced to a popularity contest.
