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100

Which state has the highest number of total COVID-19 cases in prisons?

Texas

100

When prisoners test positive for COVID-19, they are sent here.

Solitary confinement

100

What Vanderbilt student organization works with the Nashville community to promote progress in the criminal justice system, and to serve, advocate for, and uplift those impacted by it?

Vanderbilt Prison Project

100

California set a statewide emergency bail schedule that for most misdemeanor and some low-level felony offenses that reduced bail to what?

$0

100

Reducing ________ reduces the risk of viral transmission into the prison population and helps maintain a prison population size to which the facility can provide appropriate medical care.

Prison admissions

200

Which state has the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in prisons?


Florida

200

Lowering jail admissions reduces ______ — the rapid movement of people in and out of jails — and will allow the facility's total population to drop very quickly.

“jail churn”

200

This Vanderbilt professor studies how law enforcement’s approach to crime differ in countries with similar justice systems and has used their platform as a professor to educate about the justice system in the United States.

Dr. Laurie Woods

200

The number of deaths from coronavirus reported among prisoners:

1,454 deaths

200

 An incarcerated individual’s ability to perform proper hand hygiene is inhibited by the fact that this alcohol-based product is prohibited from carceral facilities.

Hand sanitizer

300

In this city, the local jail population had dropped by 17% throughout April, following special court hearings to release hundreds of people held for low-level charges, cash-bail, and “nonviolent” charges

Philadelphia

300

Outsiders often have a general attitude of this type of feeling towards incarcerated individuals

Disposability

300

On October 19th, this state governor signed a bill allowing for people with less than a year left on their sentences to be released up to eight months early

 New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy

300

Prison staff make up approximately __% of total Covid cases in prisons.

20

300

According to Dr. Charles Lee, president-elect of the American College of Correctional Physicians, the physiological age of prisoners is ____ years greater than their chronological age.

20 -- this is due to the fact that prisoners have done drugs, participated in fights, being in prison or homeless, and the lack of healthcare (Rabin, 2020).

400

Which state has the highest rate of COVID-19 cases in prisons?

New Jersey

400

An incarcerated individual’s inability to social distance within a carceral facility is a result of this.

Overcrowding

400

The name of the first man to die of Covid-19 in an American Prison

Anthony Cheek

400

How many cases have been reported among prison staff?

46,155

400

Prisoners are still permitted visitation privileges as long as social distancing is followed.

False. Visitation has been suspended due to the pandemic

500

Which state has the highest rate of COVID-19 cases in prisons?

South Dakota

500

Dr. Gaddy, who visited our class, serves as an advocate for this reform within carceral facilities.

De-densification

500

In June and August, this state governor considered and followed through with the early release for people identified as medically vulnerable, not serving a sentence for a crime against another person, and having served at least 50% of their sentence with a plan for returning to their community

Oregon Governor Kate Brown

500

In Tennessee, by population, prisoners have __ times more cases than the general population.

5.57

500

Individuals who are incarcerated have higher rates of these CDC classified Covid Comorbidities

COPD, heart disease, obesity, and chronic kidney disease

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