As Covid-19 cases in prisons climb, data on race remain largely obscured
By mid-August, jails, prisons, and other detention centers accounted for all of the top 10 Covid-19 clusters in the country. This week, the number of Covid-19 deaths among inmates and correctional officers passed 1,000, with more than 160,000 infected.
But as Covid-19 cases among incarcerated people continue to climb, the racial makeup of those cases has remained obscured, despite the fact that the groups most affected by Covid-19 — people of color, and in particular, Black people — have also been disproportionately incarcerated. Only four states are proactively reporting any demographic data on their Covid-19 testing or case counts among incarcerated people: Vermont, Tennessee, Massachusetts , and Washington.
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