Hadar Aviram is Thomas E. Miller Professor at University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She is author of Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment and Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole and coeditor of The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice.  Chad Goerzen is a Senior Research Scientist with the US Army Rotorcraft Project.

• ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Triggers and Vulnerabilities 2 • Petri Dish 3 • Bottleneck 4 • Elixir 5 • Incubator 6 • The House Always Wins 7 • Fear and Loathing 8 • The Next Plague Notes Index

"Aviram and Goerzen argue that mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic in California’s prisons was catastrophic for incarcerated persons. They offer a cultural history through first-person accounts, courtroom observations, policy documents, and collected quantitative data; they find immense suffering wrought on people behind bars through dehumanization, fear, and ignorance."