Today we’re focused on Chapter 4 of The Pandemic Divide: COVID-19, Race, and Mass Incarceration, written by our guest today, Arvind Krishnamurthy. We discuss the differences between jails and prisons, the alarming statistics on COVID among the incarcerated population (including employees), the difficulty of finding accurate data, why politicians are reluctant to do anything to help, and if there's hope in improving these conditions.
Toward the end of the episode, you'll hear Dr. Lauren Brinkley Rubinstein, Craig Waleed and Forrest Biehne from the COVID Prison Project presenting at our recent Pandemic Divide Conference.
Voices in Equity is the official podcast of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. The Cook Center is named after Samuel DuBois Cook, the first tenured Black professor at Duke University who exemplified the pursuit of social justice and equality. With research focuses including social mobility, education, health, wealth, and policy, the Cook Center aims to develop a deep understanding of the causes and consequences of inequality, and develop remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.