Table 3. Estimates of COVID-19 mortality for people in prison relative to the general population, controlling for age and sex, in studies included in a systematic review on the health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on people who experience imprisonmenta.
Indicator | Location | Period and demographic group | Point estimate | |
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COVID-19 standardized mortality ratio | US prisons [70] | April 25, 2020 week | 1.2 | |
May 2, 2020 week | 1.6 | |||
May 9, 2020 week | 2.0 | |||
May 16, 2020 week | 2.1 | |||
May 23, 2020 week | 2.2 | |||
May 30, 2020 week | 2.3 | |||
June 6, 2020 week | 2.4 | |||
June 13, 2020 week | 2.4 | |||
June 20, 2020 week | 2.5 | |||
June 27, 2020 week | 2.6 | |||
July 4, 2020 week | 2.7 | |||
July 11, 2020 week | 2.8 | |||
US federal prisons [40] | February to September 2020 | All | 2.6 | |
Males | 2.5 | |||
Females | 4.6 | |||
Texas carceral settings [36] | April 2020-March 2021 | Black | 25.4 | |
Hispanic | 33.2 | |||
White | 16.4 | |||
COVID-19 relative mortality rate | US federal and state prisons [39] | March-June 2020 | 3.0 |
aData for the same prisons and time period may have been included in multiple studies.