Locked up While Locked Down: Prisoners’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on prisoners. The prison environment and prisoner health put prison populations at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19. As a result, prison systems have adopted mitigation strategies to reduce the transmission of the virus into and within prisons. These strategies, however, have had an unintended impact on prisoners and their living conditions. In this article, we explore prisoners’ lived experiences of the pandemic in English and Welsh prisons, captured through correspondence with prisoners throughout 12 months of regime restrictions, from April 2020 to April 2021. Drawing on prisoner narratives, the analysis reveals how the restricted regime has exacerbated the pains of imprisonment and had a detrimental impact on prisoners.
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- Authors
- Suhomlinova, O., Ayres, T. C., Tonkin, M. J., O’Reilly, M., Wertans, E., & O’Shea, S. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Leicester (GB)
- The Open University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Suhomlinova, Olga
- ORCID
- Venue
- The British Journal of Criminology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2021-06-25
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 279-298
- ISSN
- 0007-0955 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-3529
- PMC
- PMC8344828
- OpenAlex
- W3176001108
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 19.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- The British Journal of Criminology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Open Research Online - ORO (The Open University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Social impacts of COVID-19
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, prisoners, lockdown, prisoner experiences, prisoner health, prison conditions, mitigation measures, prisoner correspondence
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