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Investigative journalism on the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on California's state prisons and county jails.
We collect and analyze COVID-19 data using the Public Records Act or public sources.
Our work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Mercury News, among other publications, and our data is available on the UCLA School of Law’s COVID-19 tracker for carceral facilities across the United States.
High infection rates mean that incarcerated people are placed in quarantine or isolation for extended periods of time, and in-person visits or rehabilitative programs are suspended.
A recent Stanford University study published in Frontiers in June 2022 showed that the infection rate behind bars may significantly exceed the reported number of cases. The researchers used antibody testing to identify undetected infections among both staff and incarcerated people in local jails in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
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