A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly half of the United States prison population, or five times the rate found in the general population, had been infected. Limited social distancing and difficult to implement preventative measures helped to spread COVID-19 in prisons, while many incarcerated individuals felt that government policy prevented their ability to self-care. These feelings of alienation reflect a history of policy that links disease to deviance and social death. Based on the written self-reflections of anthropology students in Wisconsin prisons, this article outlines an ethnographic and pedagogical model for analyzing pandemic policy. Students learned to relate anthropological terminology to their critiques of policy and revealed how prisoners adapted to feelings of invisibility and hopelessness during a pandemic.

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“谁死谁死”：理解美国监狱中 COVID-19 爆发的教学模型

在 COVID-19 大流行一年后，美国近一半的监狱人口（即普通人口比率的五倍）被感染。有限的社会距离和难以实施的预防措施有助于在监狱中传播 COVID-19，而许多被监禁的人认为政府政策阻碍了他们自我照顾的能力。这些疏离感反映了将疾病与偏差和社会死亡联系起来的政策历史。本文基于威斯康星监狱中人类学学生的书面自我反思，概述了分析流行病政策的人种学和教学模型。学生们学会了将人类学术语与他们对政策的批评联系起来，并揭示了囚犯如何适应大流行期间的隐形和绝望感。