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An incarcerated person received a COVID-19 vaccination at the Bolivar County Regional Correctional Facility in Cleveland, Miss., in April.
News December 22, 2021
Omicron Has Arrived. Many Prisons and Jails Are Not Ready.
Experts fear “another potential tinderbox scenario” akin to the early days of the pandemic.
By Beth Schwartzapfel and Keri Blakinger
Inside Story May 14, 2021
COVID-19 and Vaccine Mistrust Behind Bars
The second episode of The Marshall Project’s new video series, designed for audiences inside and outside of prison, reflects on how the COVID-19 vaccine has been received in lockups.
By Donald Washington, Jr. and Lawrence Bartley
Nacola McNeil in front of the Leading Into New Communities (LINC) transitional housing in Wilmington, NC, in January.
News January 19, 2021
Prisons Are Releasing People Without COVID-19 Tests Or Quarantines
People getting out of prison are bringing the virus outside because lockups aren’t taking basic precautions. Overtaxed halfway houses and other reentry programs are left to pick up the slack.
By Nicole Lewis AND Beth Schwartzapfel
Coronavirus December 18, 2020
1 in 5 Prisoners in the U.S. Has Had COVID-19
Even as the first Americans begin to receive vaccines, the spread of coronavirus behind bars shows no sign of slowing.
By Beth Schwartzapfel, Katie Park and Andrew Demillo
The Greene Correctional Facility on Oct. 15 in Coxsackie, N.Y.
Life Inside October 29, 2020
Lax Masking, Short Quarantines, Ignored Symptoms: Inside a Prison Coronavirus Outbreak in ‘Disbeliever Country.’
The latest COVID-19 surge is happening behind bars, too. Here’s three accounts from an upstate New York prison hit by the pandemic.
By Jermaine Archer, Cecil Myers and Eric Manners as told to Lisa Armstrong
Feature August 13, 2020
‘Con Air’ Is Spreading COVID-19 All Over the Federal Prison System
U.S. Marshals are transporting prisoners without testing them for coronavirus
By Keegan Hamilton AND Keri Blakinger
At the Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio, nearly 80 percent of prisoners tested positive for COVID-19.
Coronavirus June 1, 2020
What COVID-19 Prison Outbreaks Could Teach Us About Herd Immunity
Prisons turn out to be a key place to study how coronavirus spreads and how immunity to it works.
By Jamiles Lartey
Coronavirus April 24, 2020
Tracking the Spread of Coronavirus in Prisons
A new Marshall Project effort has collected data on the prevalence of COVID-19 among prisoners and prison staff. Here's what we know after one month of reporting.
By Katie Park, Tom Meagher and Weihua Li
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