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  • Corridors of Contagion

  • How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration
  • By: Victoria Law
  • Narrated by: Edelyn Okano
  • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins

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Corridors of Contagion

By: Victoria Law
Narrated by: Edelyn Okano
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Corridors of Contagion brings to light the experiences of five people incarcerated across the United States as they navigate the onset of the pandemic-and the many months, stretched into years, that followed. Journalist Victoria Law combines this storytelling with a trenchant analysis of the structural failures of the US carceral system: failures that made prisons uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks, from overcrowding to solitary confinement, from insufficient healthcare to life sentences.

The book portrays the horrors of continual lockdowns not in the comfort of one's own home, but in prisons where routine violence and chaos is made even more unimaginable by the complete lack of control over protection from a terrifying and lethal new virus. The pandemic provided an opportunity for lawmakers and policymakers to rethink the nation's addiction to perpetual punishment. Instead, US jails and prisons doubled down on punishment under the guise of pandemic protections. As a result, people behind bars experienced increased stress, mental health challenges, increased violence, and higher rates of deaths, many of which could have been prevented.

Corridors of Contagion reminds listeners about both the particular horrors experienced by people in cages and the continued role of the US as the world's prison nation.

©2024 Victoria Law (P)2024 Tantor
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