MA Student Megan Swartzfager's COVID-19 in U.S. Prisons ArcGIS Story Map Featured in Synapsis
MA Student Megan Swartzfager’s COVID-19 in U.S. Prisons ArcGIS Story Map Featured in Synapsis Prisons have been largely undiscussed hotspots of SARS-CoV-2 infection and death. Incarcerated people are 550% more likely to contract COVID-19 and 300% more likely to die from it than non-incarcerated people, according to an article by Brendan Saloner, Kalind Parish, Julie A. Ward, Grace DiLaura, and Sharon Dolovich published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in July 2020. And yet, the public discourse regarding the pandemic’s spread has largely excluded discussions of carceral ...
Source: unc.edu