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AUGUST 25, 2022





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More Than 374,000 Persons Held in State and Federal Prisons Tested Positive for COVID-19 in 2020-21 [ [link removed] ]*

WASHINGTON ? State and federal correctional facilities performed 4,816,400 viral tests for COVID-19 on persons in prison from the beginning of March 2020 to the end of February 2021. Of these tests, 396,300 (8.2%) were positive for COVID-19, representing 374,400 unique infected persons in state and federal prisons.?

The infection rate in prisons during this 12-month period was 219 per 1,000 state prisoners at risk of exposure to COVID-19 and 298 per 1,000 federal prisoners at risk of exposure. (Total prisoners at risk of exposure to COVID-19 is equal to the number of persons in state or federal prison custody at the end of February 2020 plus those admitted in the following 12 months.) Staff in state correctional facilities had an infection rate of 269 per 1,000 staff, while those working in Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities had a rate of 188 per 1,000.?

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"Impact of COVID-19 on State and Federal Prisons, March 2020?February 2021" (NCJ 304500) was written by BJS Statistician E. Ann Carson, Ph.D.; Melissa Nadel, Ph.D. of Abt Associates; and Gerry Gaes, Ph.D., an independent consultant to Abt Associates. The report, related documents, and additional information about BJS?s statistical publications and programs are available on the BJS website at BJS.gov [ [link removed] ].

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Dataset now available: [ [link removed] ]**National Prisoner Statistics program ? Coronavirus Pandemic Supplemental Survey, 2021 ?* [ [link removed] ]

The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released the National Prisoner Statistics program ? Coronavirus Pandemic Supplemental Survey, 2021 dataset through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. These data were used in the BJS report?"I""mpact of COVID-19 on State and Federal Prisons, March 2020?February 2021." State and federal correctional facilities performed 4,816,400 viral tests for COVID-19 on persons in prison from the beginning of March 2020 to the end of February 2021. The dataset provides state- and federal-level prison information on the following?


* Number of persons admitted to, and in the custody of, U.S. prisons each month
* Number of tests performed and unique number of prisoners testing positive for COVID-19
* Unique number of corrections workers testing positive for COVID-19
* Prisoners and corrections workers who died of COVID-19-related causes
* Policies and practices adopted by state departments of corrections and the Bureau of Prisons to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Alexis R. Piquero is the director.

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