‘<i>Lockdown's changed everything</i>’: Mothering adult children in prison in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lockwood, Kelly

doi:10.1177/02645505211050855

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“…Despite these arguments from disparate quarters, the numbers of released prisoners in the first two years of the pandemic were far lower than anticipated in most countries (Lockwood 2021).…”

Section: B Decarceration In Practicementioning

confidence: 90%

“…Despite these overlapping arguments, the numbers released during the first two years of the pandemic fell far short of expectations (Clear 2020;Lockwood 2021), begging the question of what went wrong.…”

Section: The Covid Decarceration: What Went Wrong?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prisoner numbers started to increase again in 19 states between January 2021 and January 2022 (Vera Institute of Justice 2022). The Prison Policy Initiative (2021, p. 1) concluded that US lawmakers have "failed to reduce prison and jail populations enough to slow the spread of Coronavirus" (see also Lemasters et al 2020;Lockwood 2021).…”

Section: B Decarceration In Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prison-based research essentially came to a halt; thus the voices of those in prison were largely absent from public debates (Pyrooz et al 2020;Maycock and Dickson 2021). Of course, some studies captured the views of those who had loved ones in prison (Lockwood et al 2021;Minson 2021;McDonald et al 2022), and others drew on data derived from letters and blogs written by prisoners (Armstrong, Davis, and Pickering 2020;McDonald et al 2020;Prison Reform Trust 2020a;Fair Trials 2021;Sorge et al 2021;Maycock 2022).…”

Section: A Locking Down the Locked Upmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of the Prison

Maruna¹,

McNaull²,

O'Neill³

2022

Crime and Justice

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Since the discovery of the "jail disease," probably typhus, in the 18 th Century, health experts have recognized that the prison is a near perfect incubator of contagious disease. Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, therefore, public health authorities and human rights groups advocated immediate and sustained decarceration of overcrowded prisons to save lives and stop the spread of the virus. Yet, decarceration efforts globally were uneven and largely failed to live up to expectations. Instead, prison systems typically sought to control the spread of Covid-19 by imposing strict "lockdowns" on prisoner movement that bordered on long-term solitary confinement in many jurisdictions. The consequences of these severe conditions on prisoners' mental and physical health are only just emerging. The ramifications for future prison reform efforts may be more profound. If a deadly pandemic is not enough to instigate a reimagining of the role of prison in society, it is unclear what could. * * * *Disease has played a central role in shaping episodes of public controversy about the humanity of punishment. Disease has a distinctive power to strip away the general invisibility of life that takes place behind the walls of prison, and narrow the gulf that normally separates the fate of prisoners from the imagination of the free. These moments have been particularly consequential because of their potential to motivate legal elites ... to "see" the existing penal regime anew and actively to reimagine the American prison. (Simon 2013, p. 223) In his sweeping history of the "medical model" in prison, Jonathan Simon argues that disease has been the primary catalyst of change in prison policy and practice since the origins of the institution. Beginning with what the English reformer John Howard described as the "jail disease" (presumably typhus) that spread through prisons in the late 1700s, Simon argues that the correctional enterprise has been "repeatedly reshaped by moments of heightened concern about disease, prisons, and the general health of the public" (p. 218). New diseases and new discoveries in medicine and public health, he argues, led to "periodic transformations [in] … correctional philosophy and ultimately constitutional understandings of the prison" (p. 218). Labelled the worst public health crisis for a generation (Maycock and Dickson 2021; Maycock 2022), the Covid-19 pandemic appears to be a perfect example of history repeating itself. From its onset, the pandemic has highlighted the extreme vulnerability of incarcerated populations. By February 29, 2020, half of reported Wuhan Covid-19 cases were within the city's penal institutions, and an outbreak at a prison 450 miles away was traced to Wuhan officials who had visited and possibly infected seven prison guards and 200 prisoners (Barnert, Ahalt, and Williams 2020). The first Covid-19 diagnosis in a US prison was announced in March 2020 (Pitts and Inkpen 2020) and the first death was only weeks later, on March 26, 2020. Within eight months, the number of prisoner death...

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Section: B Decarceration In Practicementioning

confidence: 90%

Section: The Covid Decarceration: What Went Wrong?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B Decarceration In Practicementioning

confidence: 99%