Why Has a Progressive Court Failed to Protect the Prison Population against COVID-19? Mass Incarceration and Brazil’s Supreme Court
Despite acknowledging the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic for the prison population, Brazil’s Supreme Court declined to issue structural injunctions during the health crisis ordering lower courts to consider these risks when making incarceration-related decisions. These injunctions could have been cr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Health and Human Rights |
| Online Access: | http://www.hhrjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2469/2023/12/wang.pdf |