Lives on the Fringes: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Incarceration

The chronicles of the Covid 19 days and forced lockdown, have often shown us the many difficulties that schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and prisons encountered when they found themselves managing the pandemic emergency with the normality of existence, but the difficul-ties particularly came to the surface when the ordinary situation was already compromised by atavistic problems. This was particularly true for prison institutions, which news stories at the time of the first wave of covid denounced as being on the verge of collapse, with inmates in revolt. This was because of the complexity of managing vigilance and control along with the increasingly pressing requests on behalf of in-mates, for more information and contacts with the outside world; re-quests which the pandemic not only slowed down in fulfilling but made even more extreme and insistent.