One of the blessings of this pandemic has been to shine a bright light on some darker corners of society. Emergency measures aimed at reducing the spread of Covid-19 in prison populations cut through miles of bureaucratic red tape, creating waves of strategies to stem rising incarceration rates. Over the course of a few weeks, states have released hundreds of inmates who were close to completing their sentence, and newly convicted felons have been given more lenient sentences. What might be the implications of these emergency actions on long-term reform?

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