In the 1790s, penal reformers rebuilt America’s squalid jails as airy, hygienic places meant to keep residents – and by extension society – healthy. Now they’re hotbeds of COVID-19. What went wrong?
- Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii
A wealth of research suggests prisons have serious detrimental effects on prisoners and prison workers.
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