The Struggle to Survive in the Pandemic Prison
The mental health strain of increased isolation, only sporadic access to showers, and a lack of programming pushed many over the edge.
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Read more: Federal Failures to Protect Incarcerated People During Public Health Crises Federal Failures to Protect Incarcerated People During Public Health Crises
For over a year prisoners were denied our most fundamental support systems.
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Read more: COVID-19 as Disability Interest Convergence? COVID-19 as Disability Interest Convergence?
During the pandemic, disability rights have been negotiable and vulnerable to sacrifice in service of the needs of able-bodied, neurotypical people.
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Read more: A Different Future Was Possible: Reflections on the US Pandemic Response A Different Future Was Possible: Reflections on the US Pandemic Response
Elements of the early U.S. pandemic response can help us remember that the limits of what is possible are perhaps wider than we think.
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Read more: Do No Harm: A Call for Decarceration in Hospitals Do No Harm: A Call for Decarceration in Hospitals
Incarcerated patients’ suffering is sanctioned by hospitals and medical professionals, despite their pledge to do no harm.
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Read more: We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health
No one will have learned from COVID, or any such crisis, until we undo this fundamental, toxic relationship of health to capital once and for all.
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Read more: A Mind Is A Terrible _____ To Waste A Mind Is A Terrible _____ To Waste
For over a year prisoners were denied our most fundamental support systems.
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Read more: Pandemic Nihilism, Social Murder, and the Banality of Evil Pandemic Nihilism, Social Murder, and the Banality of Evil
The nihilism that the Biden administration displays is both convenient and necessary for the personnel who help intensify the pandemic’s avoidable harms.
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Read more: Disaster Capitalism and Health Care in Prison 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.
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Read more: The Pandemic Prison The Pandemic Prison
The pandemic prison is a harbinger, not an aberration, of the society that creates and maintains it.
