Media & Publications
News:
- 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-19 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-19 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;
- JAMA: COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal and State Prisons;
- 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.