Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project

"The close quarters where prisoners live make us an extremely high-risk population, too, and the prison population is aging."

Incarcerated individuals describe their conditions behind bars during the COVID-19 pandemic.

I believe the (court) majority’s decision in this case sends a troubling message to our society that there is an acceptable level of tolerance for verbal and emotional abuse of inmates by prison officials and corrections officers, Judge Ellen Ceisler wrote. Rather than decrying this type of deplorable behavior, the arbitrator’s award encourages similar abusive conduct by other corrections officers.

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