Jails can be a large source of coronavirus spread both inside the facility and in the surrounding communities, researchers reported Monday.
In Illinois, data suggests more than 4,700 coronavirus cases through April 19 were associated with 2,129 individuals going through the Cook County Jail in March, researchers from Harvard University's Department of Anthropology and the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris said.The jail may be linked with 15.7% of all documented cases in the state and 15.9% in Chicago, they said.
"Existing conditions in jails and penitentiaries make infection control particularly difficult, putting inmates at unconscionable and perhaps unconstitutional risk," they wrote. For the state as a whole, all of the five variables were significantly positively correlated with COVID-19, they said. "The criminal justice system in the United States is just one among many existing social structures that are being subjected to renewed scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic because of the public health hazards they pose," the researchers wrote.
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