Understanding the Impact
of the COVID-19 Pandemic
on People in Prison

The coronavirus has disproportionately endangered our most vulnerable communities.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, nearly 3,000 incarcerated individuals have died from COVID-19, and hundreds of thousands more have been sick with the virus. Poor conditions in our jails, prisons, immigration detention facilities, and refugee camps have exacerbated the negative impacts of the pandemic. Lack of adequate healthcare has further worsened the impact on populations already especially vulnerable to the virus.

Racial Disparities in Incarceration and Coronavirus

At the height of the pandemic, data from states and cities around the United States demonstrated that Black and Latino people got sick and died from the coronavirus at alarming and heavily disproportionate rates.
People of color in the United States are less likely to be insured, more likely to have existing health conditions, more likely to work in jobs that expose them to the virus, and less likely to be tested and treated when ill.
All of these existing disparities are concentrated and compounded in America’s system of mass incarceration.

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