Abby Deshman

Abby Deshman is director of the Criminal Justice Program for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and is part of the Prison Pandemic Partnership, which is studying the impact of COVID-19 on Canadian sites of confinement.

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COVID’s uneven spread in the federal penitentiary system has one solution

Prisons have been major vectors of COVID-19 transmission around the world. Canada’s provincial and federal prisons recently passed the 5,000-case mark, with at least 4,000 prisoners and 1,100 staff members having contracted the coronavirus by …