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Inequities in Boston

A guide for instructors to use as part of their curricula, about inequities that are always present in the Boston area, but have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Incarcerating the Crisis by Jordan T. Camp
ISBN: 0520957687
Publication Date: 2016-04-18
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
ISBN: 9781595585301
Publication Date: 2010-02-09

COVID-19 in Prisons

More Than 150 Positive COVID-19 Cases Reported Among Prisoners, Staff Inside Mass. Jails And Prisons
Deborah Becker, WBUR, April 14, 2020
Time In Prison Shouldn't Be A Death Sentence
Taymullah Abdur-Rahman, WBUR, April 7, 2020
COVID-19 and the Criminal Justice System
From the Prison Policy Initiative
Families for Justice as Healing
Campaigns to reduce incarceration and defund prisons
Lockdown within a lockdown: What it’s like inside a Mass. prison during the coronavirus pandemic
Ainslie Cromar, boston.com, June 4, 2020
Coronavirus can mean a death sentence to prisoners
Nancy Gertner, Boston Globe, May 5, 2020
Why Has COVID-19 Not Led to More Humanitarian Releases?
Dan Berger, Boston Review, June 10, 2020
Sheriff: Coronavirus Should Not Mean Release Of People In Jail For Addiction Treatment
Deborah Becker, WBUR, April 25, 2020
New Legal Action To Free Massachusetts Prisoners Due To COVID-19
Deborah Becker, WBUR, April 17, 2020