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Even before COVID-19, El Salvador’s prisons were contagious disease hotspots. Here, MS-13 gang members with tuberculosis at Chalatenango prison, March 29, 2019. Marvin Recinos/AFP via Getty Images

Mass arrests and overcrowded prisons in El Salvador spark fear of coronavirus crisis

Miranda Cady Hallett, University of Dayton

El Salvador is arresting thousands of people for violating its COVID-19 quarantine, further packing a ‘hellish’ penal system once described as a ‘petri dish’ for infectious disease.
Prisons around the worlds have started to reduce their population in response to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli

Coronavirus in prisons: How and why to release inmates in a pandemic

Lisa Kerr, Queen's University, Ontario

Prison lawyers in Canada are scrambling to fill the gap left by federal inaction on inmate populations who are vulnerable to COVID-19. A recent case in Ontario could provide a legal precedent.

Related Topics

  1. Anti-Black racism
  2. Central America
  3. Coronavirus
  4. COVID-19
  5. El Salvador
  6. Prisoner releases
  7. Prison guards
  8. Prison overcrowding
  9. Prisons
  10. Racial profiling

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