Do Prisoners' Lives Matter? Examining the Intersection of Punitive Policies, Racial Disparities and COVID-19 as State Organized Race Crime

Numerous Michigan prisons emerged as national hotspots early in the coronavirus crisis. Once the virus entered the prisons, key actions and inaction by Michigan Department of Corrections and Governor Gretchen Whitmer allowed COVID-19 to flourish unabated, resulting in unnecessary infection and death...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elizabeth A. Bradshaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pluto Journals 2021-03-01
Series:State Crime
Online Access:https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/statecrime.10.1.0016