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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2021-03-01
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Series: | State Crime |
Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/statecrime.10.1.0016 |