Bridget Conley is the research director of the World Peace Foundation and an associate research professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is the coeditor of Accountability for Mass Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law.
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List of Tablesix 1 Introduction: The Pandemic and the Prison 1 2 COVID Is a Prison Story (December 2019-March 2020) 25 3 How Do You Stop a Crisis Inside Prison? (January 2020-April2020) 44 4 The First Wave (March 2020-June 2020) 73 5 Relentless Winter (October 2020-March 2021) 106 6 COVID Diagnosed the System (2021 and beyond) 140 Appendix: Overview of Massachusetts Prisons in 2020 155 Acknowledgments159 Notes 161 Index 000
"A valuable contribution to scholarship on prisons, abolition, and the methodological importance of lived expertise. Conley effectively demonstrates how the very reality of the virus, along with the forms of community organization that aimed to support those held within the confines of carceral institutions, reveals the limits of the 'total institution' fiction. Instead, COVID revealed the porous nature of prisons, exposing frictions and sites for contestation." - Jessica Evans, assistant professor of criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University "Conley makes a powerful statement of how a crisis serves to expose deep seated systemic problems. A crucial part of the book is the question:Why listen to directly impacted people?" - Susan Sered, co-author of Can't Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility