Dr Gwen van Eijk, assistant professor of Criminology at Erasmus School of Law, writes in her blog series about the consequences of corona for prisoners. Prisons are excellent places for a virus to spread, especially if they are overcrowded and unsanitary. However, during a crisis, people in prisons are quickly forgotten (or ignored).
Each country has its own detention system and its unique approach to the corona crisis: Iran put 70,000 prisoners in temporary liberty, Dutch prisons no longer accept self-reporting and detainees temporarily are not visited in many countries. Dr Gwen van Eijk makes an overview of this news on the weblog on Sargasso. She also writes about the consequences of the corona crisis for people in immigration detention and how people in prisons and staff experience the corona crisis.
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Sargasso exists since 2001, making it one of the oldest weblogs in the Netherlands. Since 2014, Van Eijk has published blogs on this forum on various topics, and since 2016 she is a regular author and editor for Sargasso. Recently she has started a file, especially about the corona crisis and the consequences for prisoners.