CHAPTER FOUR: CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT, COVID-19, AND THE CDC.

The article focuses on guidance from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on handling the COVID-19 pandemic in prisons and jails has influenced constitutional litigation challenging conditions of confinement. It mentions pattern in cases challenging institutional responses to the pandemic under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. It also mentions level of deference contravenes foundational principles in both administrative and constitutional law.