The Marshall Project continues to track cases of COVID-19 and it's impact across US prisons. They note that a recent change by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to remove cases and deaths from its reports has reduced their ability to accurately track new cases or deaths in federal prisons. Read more: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/01/a-state-by-state-look-at-coronavirus-in-prisons [...]
The New York Times reports that dozens of individuals in prison have died who were approved for parole or not convicted. The deaths raise troubling questions about the way the country’s justice system responded to a pandemic that infected incarcerated people at more than three times the national rate. Defense attorneys, judges and some prosecutors have [...]
America's prisons, jails and detention centers have been among the nation's most dangerous places when it comes to COVID-19. Over the last year, an average of 1,400 new infections and seven deaths were reported every day from these facilities. Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/10/us/covid-prison-outbreak.html
The Guardian reports that the question of when, "2.3 million incarcerated Americans will receive the vaccine depends largely on where they are detained." Many vaccination plans have been in flux over the last few months because of politics - who gets vaccinated and when. Unfortunately this means many prisoners risk dying in prison. One [...]
Traverse City Record Eagle reports that just as vaccination efforts begin in Michigan’s prisons, the data shows that the state has some of the highest COVID-19 infection and death rates in the nation. Michigan’s Department of Corrections suggests that due to wide-scale testing across the Michigan’s prison population that this may indicate that other [...]
Michigan passed a grim milestone this week as more than 100 prisoners have died of COVID-19 inside prison. The Detroit Free Press reported on December 17, 2020 that, "As of Wednesday, 103 people incarcerated at the state's 29 prisons have died."
A Washington Post editorial posted on August 21, 2020 notes the vulnerability of the prison population in the midst of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic and the uneven efforts nationally to deal with this issue. The authors of the opinion article call for more prisoners to be released for health and safety reasons and to help [...]
The Marshall Project is a non-profit journalism project that is tracking COVID-19 infections in state and federal prisons. Interactive data helps people see just how widespread COVID-19 is among prisons and the toll it is taking on prisoners and staff. Much of the remarkable growth in coronavirus cases has been due to some states—Michigan, Ohio, [...]
mLive reported on April 9th, 2020 that a second Michigan inmate died due to COVID-19 complications. As of April 9th, two inmates and two Department of Corrections staff have died from COVID-19. Read more: https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2020/04/2nd-michigan-inmate-dies-of-covid-19.html
mLive reported on April 1st, 2020 that the first Michigan Department of Corrections staff member has died from complications from COVID-19. They also reported that 24 other staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. Read more here: https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/04/first-michigan-prison-employee-dies-from-coronavirus-24-others-test-positive.html
