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ArticleNature2023

COVID-19 amplified racial disparities in the US criminal legal system.

Brennan Klein, C Brandon Ogbunugafor, Benjamin J Schafer, Zarana Bhadricha, Preeti Kori, Jim Sheldon, Nitish Kaza, Arush Sharma, Emily A Wang, Tina Eliassi-Rad and 2 more

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Article in Nature, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
12.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Incarceration Dynamics and Racial Disparities in North Carolina Jails.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026
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  4. Falling racial inequality and rising educational inequality in US prison admissions for drug, violent, and property crimes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. COVID-19 Reproduction Numbers and Long COVID Prevalences in California State Prisons.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Brennan KleinNetwork Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. b.klein@northeastern.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8326-5044
C Brandon OgbunugaforDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. brandon.ogbunu@yale.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1581-8345
Benjamin J SchaferDepartment of History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Zarana BhadrichaCollege of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Preeti KoriCollege of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Jim SheldonRoux Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Nitish KazaNetwork Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Arush SharmaNetwork Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Emily A WangSEICHE Center for Health and Justice, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Tina Eliassi-RadNetwork Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Samuel V ScarpinoNetwork Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. s.scarpino@northeastern.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5716-2770
Elizabeth HintonInstitute on Policing, Incarceration & Public Safety, The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. elizabeth.hinton@yale.edu.ORCID 0009-0005-3372-9257
Northeastern University · USUniversity of Vermont · USYale University · US

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The criminal legal system in the USA drives an incarceration rate that is the highest on the planet, with disparities by class and race among its signature features

Indexed as

COVID-19CriminalsPrisonersRacial GroupsBlack or African AmericanDatasets as TopicHispanic or LatinoHumansUnited StatesWhite

Identifiers

PMID37076624
PMCPMC10172107
OpenAlexW4366401092

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