COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal and State Prisons

Brendan Saloner; Kalind Parish; Julie A Ward; Grace DiLaura; Sharon Dolovich

doi:10.1001/jama.2020.12528

COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal and State Prisons

JAMA. 2020 Aug 11;324(6):602-603. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.12528.

Authors

Brendan Saloner¹, Kalind Parish², Julie A Ward¹, Grace DiLaura², Sharon Dolovich³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
² UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project, Los Angeles, California.
³ University of California Los Angeles School of Law, UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project, Los Angeles.

Abstract

This study describes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case rates and deaths among federal and state prisoners and compares them with corresponding rates for the US population.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / mortality
Federal Government
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / mortality
Prisoners / statistics & numerical data*
Prisons*
SARS-CoV-2
State Government
United States / epidemiology

Grants and funding

T32 HD094687/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States