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A daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts - hosted by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles, a historian of disasters at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea.
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Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Today I welcome Carlee Purdum, Assistant Research Professor at the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University, to talk about COVID-19, the US prison system, and incarcerated people.
Carlee Purdum, Ph.D., is an Assistant Research Professor at the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. Her work focuses on the impact that hazards and disasters have on prisons and incarcerated populations. She currently leads the CONVERGE COVID19 working group studying the impact of COVID19 in prisons. Her research partners include the organizations The Texas Prison Air-Conditioning Advocates (TPAA) and the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons who she works with to study the impact that extreme temperatures and COVID19 have had on prisons and incarcerated persons in Texas.
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