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Duke Coronavirus Conversations: COVID in US Prisons and Jails
October 16, 2020 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Co-Hosted with the Harvard Petrie-Flom Center For Bioethics, the Stanford Law School Center for Law and the Biosciences, The Marshall Project, the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law, and the Yale School of Public Health.
Congregate living spaces, and especially jails and prisons, have become COVID-19 hotspots due to ease of transmission and a lack of options for social distancing or quarantining. In our nation’s jails and prisons, inmates have little freedom of movement, often lack access to adequate hygiene and healthcare facilities, and may be unable to isolate if infected.
Join Duke Science & Society and our panel of experts in a discussion of how COVID-19 has spread through jails and prisons, how that is affecting not only inmates but also surrounding communities, what corrections officials are—and are not—doing to address COVID-19, and what should be done to improve health outcomes for and control the spread of COVID-19 among this often forgotten population.
Panelists:
Joesph Neff; Staff Writer, The Marshall Project
Maria Morris, J.D.; Senior Staff Attorney, National Prison Project, ACLU
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor of Social Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill
Moderator:
Brandon L. Garrett, J.D.; L. Neil Williams, Jr. Professor of Law, Duke Law School
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