{"id":8086,"date":"2020-07-09T09:08:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:10:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:10:06","slug":"covid-19-cases-and-deaths-in-federal-and-state-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/09\/covid-19-cases-and-deaths-in-federal-and-state-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal and State Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19 case rates have been substantially higher and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">are\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">escalating much more rapidly in prisons than in the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">general\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">US population.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0These findings are based on officially reported data<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">across<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0all\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">50\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">states, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The COVID-19 case rate\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">251 per 100<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">000 prisoners<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was 5.5 times higher than the US population case rate of 587 per 100<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">000.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The crude COVID-19 death rate in prisons was 39 deaths per 100<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">000 prisoners<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0compared to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the US population rate of 29 deaths per 100<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">000.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0It should be noted that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> individuals aged\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">65 years comprised a smaller share of the prison population than of the US population (3% vs 16%) and accounted for 81% of COVID-19 deaths in the US population.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Saloner et al. (July 8, 2020). COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal and State Prisons. JAMA.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.12528\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.12528<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 case rates have been substantially higher and\u00a0are\u00a0escalating much more rapidly in prisons than in the\u00a0general\u00a0US population.\u00a0These findings are based on officially reported data\u00a0across\u00a0all\u00a050\u00a0states, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.\u00a0The COVID-19 case rate\u00a0of\u00a03,251 per 100,000 prisoners\u00a0was 5.5 times higher than the US population case rate of 587 per 100,000.\u00a0\u00a0 The crude&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/09\/covid-19-cases-and-deaths-in-federal-and-state-prisons\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-8086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8087,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions\/8087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8086"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}