Epidemiology of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Facilities
Lab member Felicia Casanova (PhD Candidate, Sociology) published a FIRST AUTHOR paper in JAMA Network Open! This paper uses data from the COVID Prison Project and finds that cumulative case rates among people detained by ICE are higher than those of the US population and dwarf those of surrounding communities. READ MORE.
End the silence about what Covid-19 is doing to America’s prisons
I published a CNN.com op-ed with Senator Elizabeth Warren and Dr. Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein!
“The Covid-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc in our nation’s prisons and jails. We know it’s bad, but because comprehensive data isn’t being collected, we don’t know exactly how bad it is…” READ MORE.
Prison Population Reductions and COVID-19: A Latent Profile Analysis Synthesizing Recent Evidence From the Texas State Prison System
Lab member Oshea Johnson (PhD Student, Sociology) co-authored a paper in Journal of Urban Health. This paper uses data from COVID Prison Project and concludes that implementing this 85% capacity as an absolute minimum should be prioritized at prisons across the USA. READ MORE.
