Prisons and Policies in a Pandemic
Catalysts for Science Policy's In a Perfect Policy
English - August 07, 2020 17:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBScience Government science policy ideas diversity engineering stem government energy health Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, In a Perfect Policy explores the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on prisons. Caitlin Warlick-Short interviews Elina Kostyanovskaya (University of California, San Francisco), Antara Rao (University of California, San Francisco), Thomas Pospiech (University of Michigan), and Jack Stevenson (University of California, San Francisco) about how they launched an effort to get hand sanitizer to prisons and jails to combat the spread of COVID-19. You can donate to this effort here.
For a more in-depth discussion on the impacts on the pandemic on prisons, we recommend this episode from the Geripal podcast featuring Dr. Brie Williams, activist Adnan Khan and musician Eric Maserati-E Abercrombie. For National Science Policy members interested in addressing needs in their community related to COVID-19, the National Science Policy Network is offering a grant opportunity with the COVID-19 Response Fund.
In a Perfect Policy is supported by funding from the National Science Policy Network. Editing by Maia Gumnit, Chris Unterberger, and Jenny Bratburd. Music by John Leja.