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A State-By-State Look at 15 Months of Coronavirus in Prisons

In March 2020, at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, The Marshall Project began to track how many people contracted COVID-19 in federal and state prisons across the country. For more than a year, working with The Associated Press, the numbers were updated every week. Download the raw data on Github and Data.world, and read more about other sources for current data and how they collected their numbers.
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A State-By-State Look at 15 Months of Coronavirus in Prisons
The Marshall Project
06/25/2021
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/01/a-state-by-state-look-at-…

Check out previous Environmental Scans

The National Institute of Corrections publishes this compilation of resources each year as an overview of what research indicates to be the trends in the corrections industry each year.
Accession Number: (2018) 033176, (2019) 033431, (2020) 033563, (2021) 033670, (2022) 033086, (2023) 033087