Interview with Maurice Chammah

Maurice Chammah is a journalist and staff writer for The Marshall Project. In this late 2020 interview, Maurice discusses his work as a journalist exploring the overlap between the COVID pandemic and incarceration. He gives an overview of several of his pieces that have developed since the beginning of the pandemic. He mentions work on advocacy in small-town Texas, tracking medical conditions in jails and prisons across the country, executions during a time of quarantine, and more. Maurice reflects on how the pandemic is highlighting and exacerbating issues in the criminal justice system. This interview was conducted virtually by Murphy Anne Carter on November 10, 2020.