Report: Four of California’s prisons ranked worst at handling COVID, care for inmates
Report: Four of California’s prisons ranked worst at handling COVID, care for inmates
- June 7, 2023
- PrisonPandemic, Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2023
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More than three years after the pandemic started sweeping through the California prison system, a report from UCLA offers a new measure of just how bad it was — and which prisons handled it the worst. … The UCLA team wanted to find a way to examine problems that are harder to quantify, such as deteriorating conditions, neglectful staff and the toll of extreme isolation in prison. To do that, they turned to researchers at UC Irvine, who had already received thousands of letters and phone calls for their PrisonPandemic project, an ongoing initiative to document the experiences of people in California prisons.
For the full story, please visit https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-07/report-four-of-californias-prisons-ranked-worst-at-handling-covid-care-for-inmates.
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