COVID-19

Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor; Director, Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation, HKS
Marcella Alsan, Angelopoulos Professor of Public Policy, HKS
Sandra Susan Smith, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice; Faculty Director, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
Crystal S. Yang, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, HLS

Peeler, Katherine, Parsa Erfani, Caroline H. Lee, Nishant Uppal, Kathryn Hampton, Ranit Mishori, and Elsa Raker. Praying for Hand Soap and Masks: Health and Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Detention during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Physicians for Human Rights, 2021.
Erfani P, Uppal N, Lee CH, Mishori R, Peeler KR. COVID-19 Testing and Cases in Immigration Detention Centers, April-August 2020. JAMA. 2021;325(2):182–184. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.21473
“A Systematic Approach to Mitigate the Spread Of COVID-19 in Immigration Detention Facilities, " Health Affairs Blog, June 17, 2020.DOI: 10.1377/hblog20200616.357449
Marcella Alsan and Crystal Yang. "NCCHC-HU COVID-19 Survey of Correctional Facilities." National Commission on Correctional Health Care. 2020.

Releasing federal inmates to fight COVID-19 and increase racial equity.

New research tracing outbreaks among prison inmates and correctional staff. You can also read a Q&A with study authors Marcella Alsan and Crystal Yang.

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