Coronavirus - 2020 | Corrections Environmental Scan

The world changed in 2020 and everyone was forced to react to an unprecedented global health crisis. Correctional institutions were not immune to this pandemic. This collection of resources highlights many of the developing insights throughout the first year of the crisis and how corrections facilities and agencies were reacting to the problems they faced.

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Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Nearly Three-in-Ten Young People Are Neither Working Nor in School

As COVID-19 cases have surged in the United States, young adults face a weakening labor market and an uncertain educational outlook. Between February and June 2020, the share of young adults who are neither enrolled in school nor employed – a measure some refer to as the “disconnection rate” – has more than doubled, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data by Pew Research Center. Most of the increase is related to job loss among young workers.

At the beginning of 2020, the share of Americans ages 16 to 24 who were “disconnected” from work and school mirrored rates from the previous year. But between March and April, the share jumped significantly, from 12% to 20%. By June 2020, 28% of youths were neither in school nor the workplace.

Coronavirus

Domestic

Citations:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/07/29/amid-coronavirus-outbreak-nearl…

Impact of COVID-19 on the Local Jail Population, January-June 2020

Local jails in the United States experienced a large decline in their inmate populations from June 30, 2019 to June 30, 2020, which can be attributed mainly to the COVID-19 pandemic. The inmate population confined in local jails was 549,100 at the end of June 2020, down from 734,500 at the end of June 2019. The midyear 2020 inmate population was the lowest since 1996, when 518,500 inmates were confined in local jails (not shown in tables).

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Correctional

Citations:

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/icljpjj20.pdf

COVID-19 and Pretrial Practices: A Pretrial Executives Roundtable

The Pretrial Executives Roundtables, convened on June 19 and July 16, 2020, explored how pretrial practices have changed in the participating jurisdictions as a result of COVID-19, the impact of those changes thus far, and the potential long-term impacts of these short-term changes

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Correctional

Citations:

https://cdn.filestackcontent.com/security=policy:eyJleHBpcnkiOjQwODAxNDY0MDAsImN…

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