ISER - Institute of Religion Studies has released the first edition of the book "Covid in prisons: Pandemia and Struggle for Justice in Brazil (2020-2021)".
“As a penal abolitionist, looking at this ticking time bomb – which are Brazilian prisons – is already a difficult task, but through the magnified lens present in each text, each report, each testimony, each design of policy to protect people's lives incarcerated, everything took on revealing dimensions of the serious situation of updating the colonial system of revenge that sustains the prisons of Brazil”. (from the preface by Vilma Reis)
The publication brings together texts that portray the unacceptable conditions of the Brazilian prison system, greatly affected by the emergence of the new coronavirus. Made possible through a partnership with the Criminal Justice Network, the book has 32 articles, written by more than 50 authors and authors from different affiliations.
