THREAD: #FreeThemAll is raising needed awareness & action to stop #COVID19 from harming people incarcerated in U.S. jails and prisons. This should also apply to what& #39;s happening in large psychiatric hospitals and congregate facilities, where folks are also not free to leave. 1/
Last month I interviewed @mabsegrest, author of the new book Administrations of Lunacy, launching today with @thenewpress. Mab talks about how the asylum and the prison system have always gone hand in hand as two sides of a carceral system that underpins the American state. 2/
Many people think that what goes on in psych hospitals is benign. Sure, psych hospitals are not prisons. But both are understaffed, unsanitary, and filled w/ violence -- seclusion, restraint, & solitary confinement. Not surprisingly, #COVID19 is ripping through both systems. 3/