Incarcerated individuals are becoming infected with COVID-19 at a rate four times as often as the general population.

Writing for The Washington Post, Danielle Allen, a former speaker in SOF/Heyman's Trilling lecture series, notes, 

Bad health care should never be part of someone’s penal sanction. Nor should we ignore failings on this front on the grounds that the people facing a health crisis are convicted offenders. They are human beings, whose rights and dignity should be evident in our decision-making about them. Whatever our governments do to incarcerated people, they do in our names.

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Featured Image: Needle syringe with a vaccine bottle / Photograph by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). / Flickr.