Marquez and Colleagues Explore Effects of COVID-19 on Life Expectancies in Prison
Posted: 2/4/2022 (CSDE in the News)
CSDE Fellow Neal Marquez and co-authors from the UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project recently published a new paper in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, available in full HERE. The article presents an analysis of mortality records from the Florida State Department of Corrections prison system in 2019 and 2020, comparing these records to the overall Florida population. The authors find that COVID-19 decreased life expectancy of the prison population by four years.