America’s jail population is ticking back up again even as covid-19 cases surge
, prisoners are five times more likely to contract the disease than the general public, and three times more likely to die from it. The confined nature of America’s prisons has enabled the spread of disease within their walls, and the jail system may have seeded more cases into the wider community.
What makes jails so dangerous is their high turnover. Whereas prison inmates have been tried and convicted of crimes and are serving their sentences, often for years or decades, jails are meant for short-term detention. Few detainees have even been convicted of anything. According to the Prison Policy Initiative , a research group, some 600,000 Americans are imprisoned each year, compared with 4.9m who are put in jail.
Consider Cook County jail in Chicago, the biggest single-site jail in America. The facility, which holds some 6,100 people, reported its first case of covid-19 on March 22nd. Cases grew swiftly after that, turning the jail into the country’s largest-known source of infections at the time.traces the effect of these infections on the region.
Recorded cases of covid-19 in Cook County jail rapidly declined after May, as the local sheriff’s office increased testing and cleaning, isolated the sick, moved detainees into single-person cells and released others. Many other jails across the country took similar precautions. Yet now, according to researchers at New York University, . If the past is prologue, jails—and the communities around them—still have reason to worry.
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