Special edition on COVID-19 and the prison system.
In this edition
Introducing this special edition on prisons and the COVID-19 pandemic
Interview with Dr Eamonn O’Moore, National Lead for Health and Justice at Public Health England
By Dr Jamie Bennett
Interview with Sarah Coccia, Executive Director for Public Sector Prisons (South) in HM Prison and Probation Service
By Dr Jamie Bennett
Interview with Peter Clarke, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, 2016-20
By Dr Jamie Bennett
By Dr Kimmett Edgar, Paula Harriott, Dr Mia Harris, Dr David Maguire and Claudia Vince
By Dr Natalie Booth and Dr Isla Masson
Interview with Ian Merrill, Chief Executive of Shannon Trust
By William Payne
Interview with Alessio Scandurra, Director of research at Antigone, Italy and co-ordinator of the European Prison Observatory
By Dr Jamie Bennett
Interview with Ahmed Jalloh, Program Manager; John Coker, Finance Manager and Dambie Sesay, Data Clerk, all at Prison Watch — Sierra Leone
By Andrew M Jefferson and Marie Louise Drivsholm Østergaard
Interview with Christian Alveal, the National Director of the Chilean Prison Service
By Catalina Droppelmann
Interview with Hazael Ruíz Ortega, Head of the Mexico City Prison System, and Pedro Aguilar Cueto, Director of a pre-release prison within the Mexico City Prison System
By Dr Ruth Armstrong