Kristin Turney

When the Covid-19 pandemic began, it wasn’t hard to predict that incarcerated people would be at higher risk. … Now, a national study from one of these collaborations, between the University of California, Irvine and Brigham and Women’s hospital, shows that at the peak of the pandemic in 2020, people inside prisons died almost three and a half times more frequently than the free population.

For the full story, please visit https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/18/incarcerated-people-covid-death-rates.