Fester : Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster

The COVID-19 disaster in California's prisons stands out as the worst medical prison catastrophe in the state's history. Three-quarters of the state's prison population was infected; 264 incarcerated people and 50 staff members died. In Fester, authors Hadar Aviram and Chad Goerzen expose the COVID-19 correctional experience through hundreds of first-person accounts, months of courtroom observations, years of carefully collected quantitative COVID-19 data, and a wealth of policy documents. Already vulnerable from decades of overcrowding and abysmal healthcare, California's prison population bore the brunt of the COVID-19 horror. Fester bears witness to the immense suffering we bring on ourselves and our fellow humans through dehumanization, fear, and ignorance, and stands as a monument for a brave coalition of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, family members and loved ones, advocates and activists, doctors and journalists, who worked to shed light on one of the darkest times in the Golden State's correctional system--

• | Author: Hadar Aviram, Chad Goerzen
• | Publisher: Univ of California Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 13, 2024
• | Number of Pages: 305 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0520386124
• | ISBN-13: 9780520386129