Disruption Now

A crisis exposes institutional weaknesses within our society. One of America’s greatest structural weakness is our criminal justice system. It’s a system less focused on rehabilitation and reducing crime and more focused on confining the poor and profiteering. That is now coming to haunt America during the COVID-19 crises. We discuss how reducing mass incarceration is connected to COVID-19. Stopping the spread in overcrowded prisons is needed to stop the spread and flatten the curve.

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Show Notes

Dr. Martin Luther King said “In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” This is true now more than ever. The COVID-19 is brought to these prisoners and then they spread it to not only other prisoners but to the guards, nurses and health care workers that work in the prison. Then, of course, the workers pass it back to the communities they live in. Overcrowded prisons make social distancing impossible. Solving the injustice of mass incarceration is tied to all of our fates now.

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