Eric Reinhart is an anthropologist of policing, prisons, and public health, a psychoanalyst, and a resident physician at Northwestern University. He is also a lead researcher in the Data and Evidence for Justice Reform program at the World Bank Research Group.
Omicron is coming for America’s overcrowded jails and prisons. Prioritizing vaccines for incarcerated people and rolling back our massive prison-industrial complex is good public health for everyone.
A new study shows that mass incarceration hasn’t just created a public health nightmare within US jails and prisons — COVID-19’s spread inside jails and prisons has spread through the rest of society. Ending mass incarceration is a dire public health concern for everyone.
A new study finds that American jails — not just prisons — are a major hot spot for spreading coronavirus. The solution is simple: stop arresting so many people.