ArticleJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2021
Prison Population Reductions and COVID-19: A Latent Profile Analysis Synthesizing Recent Evidence From the Texas State Prison System.
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- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people experiencing incarceration: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
- The health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults who experience imprisonment globally: A mixed methods systematic review.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Studying COVID-19 transmission in US state prisons using an agent-based modelling approach: a simulation study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- The association between health and prison overcrowding, a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Carceral Health Care.The New England journal of medicine · 2025Review
- Decarceration and COVID-19 infections in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities: a simulation modeling study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
- Enhancing healthcare accessibility through telehealth for justice impacted individuals.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Excess mortality in U.S. prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic.Science advances · 2023Article
- Rates of SARS-CoV-2 transmission between and into California state prisons.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- COVID-19 Burden in Adult Correctional or Detention Facilities and the Surrounding Communities, January 1, 2020-July 20, 2021.Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care · 2023Article
- "I Don't Want to Die in Here": Absence and Vulnerability in COVID-19 News Coverage of Prisons.The Journal of communication inquiry · 2023Article
- Age and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: a comparison of the prison and general population.International journal of prisoner health · 2023Article
- Returning home during the pandemic: a thematic analysis describing experiences of people with substance use disorders released early from New Jersey prisons during COVID-19.Health & justice · 2023Article
- Coping with COVID in corrections: a qualitative study among the recently incarcerated on infection control and the acceptability of wastewater-based surveillance.Health & justice · 2023Article
- Seroprevalence and Risk Factors for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Among Incarcerated Adult Men in Quebec, Canada, 2021.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022Article
- SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in the adult detainees of the Paris area in 2021: A multicenter cross-sectional study.The Journal of infection · 2022Article
- Modeling scenarios for mitigating outbreaks in congregate settings.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- A study of SARS-COV-2 outbreaks in US federal prisons: the linkage between staff, incarcerated populations, and community transmission.BMC public health · 2022Article
- The Risk of COVID-19 Infection in Prisons and Prevention Strategies: A Systematic Review and a New Strategic Protocol of Prevention.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
People in prison are particularly vulnerable to infectious disease due to close living conditions and the lack of protective equipment. As a result, public health professionals and prison administrators seek information to guide best practices and policy recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using latent profile analysis, we sought to characterize Texas prisons on levels of COVID-19 cases and deaths among incarcerated residents, and COVID-19 cases among prison staff. This observational study was a secondary data analysis of publicly available data from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TBDJ) collected from March 1, 2020, until July 24, 2020. This project was completed in collaboration with the COVID Prison Project. We identified relevant profiles from the data: a low-outbreak profile, a high-outbreak profile, and a high-death profile. Additionally, current prison population and level of employee staffing predicted membership in the high-outbreak and high-death profiles when compared with the low-outbreak profile. Housing persons at 85% of prison capacity was associated with lower risk of COVID-19 infection and death. Implementing this 85% standard as an absolute minimum should be prioritized at prisons across the USA.
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