In the News

Op-Eds:

• Op-Ed: Opinion: Texas should end medical copays in its prisons, Austin American-Statesmen, December 4, 2022
• Op-Ed: As Covid Surges Again, Decarceration Is More Necessary Than Ever, The Nation, December 22, 2021
• Op-Ed: What Officials Can Do to Keep Omicron From Ravaging One of Our Most Vulnerable Populations, Slate, December 20, 2021
• Op-Ed: Newsom is afraid of a winter COVID surge? Then do something about prison crowding, San Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 2021
• Op-Ed: To slow the spread of COVID-19, Illinois must decarcerate, Chicago Tribune, September 20, 2021
• Op-Ed: Prisons’ culture of secrecy endangers Georgians, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 27, 2021
• Op-Ed: Get Police Vaccinated, The Atlantic, August 26, 2021
• Op-Ed: As COVID rates rise, mandate vaccine for prison staff, USA TODAY, August 18, 2021
• Op-Ed: COVID Is Spreading Like Wildfire in ICE Facilities — Decarceration, reducing transfers, and public health measures can help, MedPage Today, July 31, 2021
• Op-Ed: Florida still is not protecting people in prisons, communities from COVID-19 surge, Miami Herald, July 28, 2021

Press Releases

• Press Release: Life Expectancy in Florida Prisons Plummeted During Pandemic, Study Finds, April 22, 2021
• 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
• 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:

• The New York Times, More inmates than employees are vaccinated in Minnesota’s prisons;
• Forbes, Prison Inmates More Vaccinated Than Corrections Staff In At Least 13 States;
• CNN, Compassionate release became a life-or-death lottery for thousands of federal inmates during the pandemic;
• Time, What Happens When the World’s Most Popular COVID-19 Dashboard Can’t Get Data?;
• The Republic, Jennings jail confirms COVID-19 outbreak;
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Witnesses describe inhumane conditions in Georgia prisons, call for change;
• Time Magazine: 50 Years After Attica, Prisoners Are Still Protesting Brutal Conditions. Will America Finally Listen?;
• Forbes: The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Inadequate Response To Covid-19;
• Huffington Post, Delta Is Coming For Jails And Prisons, And The System Isn’t Ready To Protect The Incarcerated
• 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.