Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, is an epidemiologist and former health director for the City of Detroit. He is the author of Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of our Political Epidemic and host of the podcast America Dissected.
Thea Sebastian, JD, is Policy Counsel at Civil Rights Corps, a nonprofit organization dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the American legal system.
Even before COVID-19 upended American social and economic life, mass incarceration was devastating communities nationwide. But with data suggesting that…