“COVID-19 has the world on high alert. In recognition that the coronavirus is spreading quickly
among high concentrations of people in close proximity, schools are being shut down,
conferences rescheduled, international travel is being restricted, and cruise ships — the early
incubators of the virus — are being quarantined. Those measures are all sensible, but they also
drive home how little attention is being paid to the millions of people in the most overcrowded
conditions that are ripe for the spread of this contagious and deadly virus: the people behind bars”