Rounding up some recent commentary on the current COVID prison state

I continue to see more COVID commentary than I have time to read closely, let alone blog about effectively.  But, trying to cover lots of ground, here is a round up of some pieces that caught my eye in recent days:

By Mia Armstrong, "Life Has Moved to Zoom. Can Prison Visitation Do the Same?"

By Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard, "Two Prominent COVID-19 Federal Prison Deaths’ Common Denominator? Joe Biden"

By Rory Fleming, "In a Prison Where Coronavirus Is Rife, Waiting on a Judge’s Call to Be Freed"

By Oren Gur, Jacob Kaplan and Aaron Littman, "Data Is Key To Stopping COVID-19 Spread In Prisons"

By Holly Harris, "Blame the Justice Department for Andrea Circle Bear’s Death"

By Nicole Lewis, "Can College Programs in Prison Survive COVID-19?"

By Brent Orrell and Grant Duwe, "COVID-19 has exposed the interlocking risks of mass incarceration"

By John Wetzel, "What We've Learned About COVID-19 in Prisons"

 

UPDATE:  I forgot to include a great piece by the always great Radley Balko, and then I saw a number of others that seemed worth adding (though this list is still far short of comprehensive):

By Radley Balko, "Stopping covid-19 behind bars was an achievable moral imperative. We failed."

By Talha Burki, "Prisons are 'in no way equipped' to deal with COVID-19"

By Alex Busansky, "What a Pandemic Can Teach Us About the Future of Criminal Justice"

By Lauren-Brooke Eisen, "Covid-19 Continues Its Toll on Jails and Prisons"

By Nancy Gertner, "Coronavirus can mean a death sentence to prisoners: We got used to treating people as categories, not human beings."

By Lovisa Stannow, "What about the prisoners who won’t get out?"