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    2021 Apr 06

    COVID-19 Crisis in Prisons, Jails, and Detention Centers: Historical Perspective and Global Context

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Zoom

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    COVID-19 Crisis in Prisons, Jails, and Detention Centers: Historical Perspective and Global Context is the first event in a new series hosted by the Harvard Global Health Institute in partnership with Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. This...

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    2021 May 04

    Decarceration as a Public Health Strategy: Stopping the Spread of COVID-19

    12:00pm to 1:10pm

    Location: 

    Webinar

    The second event in our series, co-sponsored with the Harvard Gloabl Health Institute, will consider prison depopulation or decarceration in response to the threat of COVID-19 in places of incarceration. In response to the growing number of COVID-19 outbreaks in these facilities, public health experts, civil rights attorneys, and advocacy groups have made urgent appeals for decarceration. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, prison decongestion measures have been adopted in over 100 countries world wide. However, decarceration and prison depopulation isn’t straightforward. It...

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