STATE SPEC
Which state has the highest number of total COVID-19 cases in prisons?
Texas
When prisoners test positive for COVID-19, they are sent here.
Solitary confinement
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
California set a statewide emergency bail schedule that for most misdemeanor and some low-level felony offenses that reduced bail to what?
$0
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
Which state has the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in prisons?
Florida
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”
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
The number of deaths from coronavirus reported among prisoners:
1,454 deaths
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
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
Outsiders often have a general attitude of this type of feeling towards incarcerated individuals
Disposability
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
Prison staff make up approximately __% of total Covid cases in prisons.
20
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).
Which state has the highest rate of COVID-19 cases in prisons?
New Jersey
An incarcerated individual’s inability to social distance within a carceral facility is a result of this.
Overcrowding
The name of the first man to die of Covid-19 in an American Prison
Anthony Cheek
How many cases have been reported among prison staff?
46,155
Prisoners are still permitted visitation privileges as long as social distancing is followed.
False. Visitation has been suspended due to the pandemic
Which state has the highest rate of COVID-19 cases in prisons?
South Dakota
Dr. Gaddy, who visited our class, serves as an advocate for this reform within carceral facilities.
De-densification
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
In Tennessee, by population, prisoners have __ times more cases than the general population.
5.57
Individuals who are incarcerated have higher rates of these CDC classified Covid Comorbidities
COPD, heart disease, obesity, and chronic kidney disease