Solitary Confinement May Worsen Covid-19 Transmission in Prisons
Blades, R (2021). Solitary Confinement May Worsen Covid-19 Transmission in Prisons. Undark, https://undark.org/2021/02/15/solitary-confinement-covid-19/
“Eleven months into the pandemic, the U.S. prison system has not gotten control of its rising caseload, which is likely still underestimated, according to The Marshall Project, a nonprofit journalism outlet focused on criminal justice issues. Doctors, attorneys, prison reform advocates, and public health researchers are increasingly concerned about one of the tactics that prisons are using to isolate symptomatic individuals: solitary confinement, the prolonged use of which is an internationally recognized form of torture denounced by the United Nations…”