A white paper published July 2020 by the Michigan Criminal Justice Program of the American Friends Service Committee and the Carceral State Project’s Confronting Conditions of Confinement team (Nora Krinitsky, Pete Martel, Megan Wilson). This report presents an evidence-based case for decarceration as the only humane and meaningful response to the COVID-19 pandemic in prisons, based on extensive documentation of current conditions from phone calls, letters, and other messages by people incarcerated in the state of Michigan. Click here for a downloadable pdf version and visit this site for a flippable book version. Visit our COVID-19 and Incarceration campaign page for more.
Carceral State Project and AFSC Release White Paper on Prison Conditions and Decarceration in the Age of COVID-19
