Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
As COVID-19 continues to spread rapidly across the country, the crowded and unsanitary conditions in prisons, jails, juvenile detention, and immigration detention centers leave incarcerated individuals especially vulnerable. This chapter will discuss potential avenues for detained persons and their lawyers seeking to use the legal system to obtain relief, including potential release, during this extraordinary, unprecedented crisis.
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Constitutional Law | Health Law and Policy | Human Rights Law | Immigration Law | Law | Law Enforcement and Corrections
Recommended Citation
Gregory Bernstein, Stephanie Guzman, Maggie Hadley, Rosalyn M. Huff, Alison Hung, Anita N. Yandle, Alexis Hoag & Bernard E. Harcourt,
COVID-19 and Prisoners’ Rights,
Law in the Time of COVID-19, Katharina Pistor (Ed.), Columbia Law School, 2020
(2020).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/2682
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Comments
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