COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in Federal and State Prisons Compared With the US Population, April 5, 2020, to April 3, 2021

Neal Marquez; Julie A Ward; Kalind Parish; Brendan Saloner; Sharon Dolovich

doi:10.1001/jama.2021.17575

COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in Federal and State Prisons Compared With the US Population, April 5, 2020, to April 3, 2021

JAMA. 2021 Nov 9;326(18):1865-1867. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.17575.

Authors

Neal Marquez¹, Julie A Ward², Kalind Parish³, Brendan Saloner², Sharon Dolovich⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Washington Department of Sociology, Seattle.
² Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ University of California Los Angeles School of Law, Los Angeles.

Abstract

This study examines COVID-19 cases and deaths among US federal and state prisoners from April 5, 2020, to April 3, 2021, compared with cases and deaths in the overall US population.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Age Distribution
Aged
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 / mortality
Female
Humans
Incidence
Male
Prisoners / statistics & numerical data*
Prisons
Sex Distribution
United States / epidemiology

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding