This Working Group aims to collect, analyze, and share examples of prisons and prisoners’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to inform public health and disaster risk reduction policy that uphold human rights and do no harm for those incarcerated.
Carlee Purdum, Texas A&M University
Email: jcarleepurdum@arch.tamu.edu
John Paul Borlongan, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, Philippines
Ksenia Chmutina, Loughborough University
JC Gaillard, University of Auckland
Jonatan Lassa, Charles Darwin University
Loic Le De, Auckland University of Technology
Victor Marchezini, Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alerta de Desastres Naturais
Stacie Merken, Indiana University
Carlee Purdum, Texas A&M University
Emmanuel Raju, Copenhagen University
Dewald van Niekerk, North-West University
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