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Updates:

• Press Release: Life Expectancy in Florida Prisons Plummeted During Pandemic, Study Finds, April 22, 2021
• Open Letter Urging Authorities to Prioritize People in Carceral Facilities for COVID-19 Vaccine, December 17, 2020
• Press Release: Health, Ethics, and Criminal Legal Experts Urge Authorities to Prioritize People in Carceral Facilities for COVID-19 Vaccine, December 17, 2020
• Press Release: UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project Launches New Website Displaying Data about COVID-19 in Carceral Facilities, December 17, 2020
• Recommendations for Prioritization and Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccine in Prisons and Jails, December 16, 2020
• Press Release: Data from UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project demonstrate threat to rural communities, need to decarcerate as COVID-19 cases surge in prisons and jails, November 25, 2020

Our work has been featured in/on:

• NPR: Vaccinating Inmates is Good for Public Health. Why Aren’t More States Doing It?;
• The University of Chicago Law Review Online: Mass Incarceration, Meet COVID-19;
• Reuters: Across U.S., COVID-19 takes a hidden toll behind bars;
• The New Yorker: Will the Coronavirus Make us Rethink Mass Incarceration?;
• The Washington Post: Prison and jails have become a ‘public health threat’ during the pandemic, advocates say;
• The Wall Street Journal: Coronavirus-Driven Prisoner Releases Spur Debate Over Public Health Versus Public Safety;
• The Los Angeles Times: The industry behind prisons profits, even during the coronavirus outbreak; Haves vs. have-nots: Who ‘deserves’ to be next in line for the COVID-19 vaccine?;
• The Intercept: ICE’s Immigration Detainees Protested Lack of Coronavirus Precautions — And SWAT-like Private-Prison Guards Pepper-sprayed them; Mass Incarceration Poses a Uniquely American Risk in the Coronavirus Pandemic;
• The Miami Herald: Florida Prisons Boss Can’t Release Inmates Amid Covid-19. But Can He Furlough Them?
• The Telegraph: ‘A perfect storm’: Why coronavirus is raging in US prisons
• The Appeal: What Sheriffs Can Do to Slow the Coronavirus Outbreak; Every Public Official With The Power To Decarcerate Must Exercise That Power Now; Coronavirus in Jails and Prisons;
• The Huffington Post: The Deadly Spread Of Coronavirus Is Hitting Women’s Prisons; Pregnant Women In New York Are Stuck In Prison Despite Governor’s Promise;
• Slate: We Have No Idea How Many People in Prison Actually Have COVID-19;
• Business Insider: More US prisoners have died of COVID-19 in recent months than have been executed in the last 20 years;
• Mother Jones: How Old Laws About “Pestilence” Could Protect Prisoners From the Coronavirus; They Suffered Years of Abuse. Now They’re Trapped Behind Bars in a Pandemic;
• CalMatters: High-Risk Inmates Aren’t Prioritized in State’s Early Releases;
• Prison Policy Initiative: These prisons and jails show what is in store if facilities don’t freeze admissions and release more people now;

And many other publications and media outlets.