The pandemic has hit American prison inmates especially hard, Karina Piser (France, 2017-2019) writes in articles for The Nation and The New Republic. 

“In order to insulate facilities from outside infections, prisons and jails have suspended in-person visits,” she writes in The Nation. “But for people with incarcerated loved ones, that measure carries a devastating emotional toll.”

Read The Nation article here.

Read The New Republic article here.

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