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Researching Mass Incarceration and Prison Abolition

A guide created to assist those who wish to identify resources on mass incarceration and prison abolition. This guide highlights selected New York-specific events and sources.

Researching Health Issues in Carceral Facilities & Paths to Change

  • The Covid Prison Project is "[a] group of interdisciplinary, public health scientists."  This group "tracks data and policy across the country to monitor COVID-19 in prisons." 
  • This site provides COVID-19 statistical data (including data pertaining to federal BOP, ICE and state systems), policy data and data visualizations.

Johns Hopkins Alliance for a Healthier World, COVID-19 Health Justice Policy Tracker

  • Click: Designed Version
 
Prison Policy Initiative, issue page: COVID-19 in Prisons and Jails
 
  • This is a report from the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center and the Texas Prisons Community Advocates. Excerpt from this report's Executive Summary: "Texas is one of at least thirteen states in the U.S. that does not have universal air-conditioning in state prisons. Throughout the history of imprisonment in Texas, incarcerated people have experienced great harm from extreme heat and a lack of adequate protections. Although 87 percent of households in the U.S. use air-conditioning equipment, only 30 percent of Texas prison units are fully air-conditioned. Temperatures inside units have been shown to regularly reach 110 degrees and in at least one unit have topped 149 degrees."

  • See also Health Affairs journal, Health & Justice open-access special issue: Enhancing the Prison Environment, PubMed Central open-access repository and PsycNET index (described on the Journals & Sources of Articles guide page).

Book: The Incarceration of Native American Women: Creating Pathways to Wellness and Recovery Through Gentle Action Theory:

Books Discussing Broader Health Issues: