Abstract:Objective: To estimate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality rates among individuals incarcerated in U.S. state prisons by race and ethnicity (RE).
Design: Retrospective population-based analysis
Setting: Data from state-level Departments of Corrections (DOCs) from March 1 through October 1, 2020.
Participants: Publicly available data collected by Freedom of Information Act requests representing adults in the custody of US state DOCs.
Main Outcomes: Cumulative COVID-19 death and custody population… Show more
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