| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Substitution in Haft
USA. “The Great Meltdown”: In Prisons, a Drug War Without Harm Reduction
USA. “The Great Meltdown”: In Prisons, a Drug War Without Harm Reduction
(…) GDC (Georgia Department of Corrections, Anm.) warehouses around 50,000 people across 34 facilities. Under COVID, there was no gym time. No recreational programs. No religious services. No vocational programs. No routine. And an understaffing crisis so severe that no one was really watching.
“Drug use [went] astronomically off the charts,” Tony, 38, incarcerated for most of the past 20 years, told Filter. The supply itself evolved, quickly. “Prior to the pandemic, drugs were not like this.” (Filter, 07.10.2022)