eprintid: 35044 rev_number: 37 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/03/50/44 datestamp: 2020-06-09 08:03:49 lastmod: 2024-12-19 09:36:10 status_changed: 2024-12-19 08:34:42 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Reinhart, Eric creators_name: Chen, Daniel L. creators_idrefppn: 241586631 creators_affiliation: Toulouse School of Economics creators_halaffid: 1002422;441569 title: Incarceration and its disseminations: COVID-19 pandemic lessons from Chicago’s Cook County jail ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: Jails and prisons are major sites of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Many jurisdictions in the United States have therefore accelerated release of low-risk offenders. Early release, however, does not address how arrest and pre-trial detention practices may be contributing to disease spread. Using data from Cook County Jail, in Chicago, Illinois, one of the largest known nodes of SARS-CoV-2 spread, we analyze the relationship between jailing practices and community infections at the zip-code level. We find that jail cycling is a significant predictor of SARS-CoV-2 infection, accounting for 55 percent of the variance in case rates across zip codes in Chicago and 37 percent in Illinois. By comparison, jail cycling far exceeds race, poverty, public transit utilization, and population density as a predictor of variance. The data suggest that cycling through Cook County Jail alone is associated with 15.7 percent of all documented novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Illinois and 15.9 percent in Chicago as of April 19, 2020. Our findings support arguments for reduced reliance on incarceration and for related justice reforms both as emergency measures during the present pandemic and as sustained structural changes vital for future pandemic preparedness and public health. date: 2020-06-04 date_type: published publisher: Project Hope id_number: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00652 official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/124364 faculty: tse divisions: tse keywords: Covid-19 keywords: Coronavirus keywords: Pandemics keywords: Jail-involved population keywords: Prison health care keywords: Public health keywords: Social determinants of health keywords: Socioeconomic determinants of health keywords: Diseases keywords: Populations keywords: Access and use keywords: Ethics keywords: Bundled charges keywords: Health disparities keywords: Racism keywords: Ethnic disparities keywords: Disparities in access keywords: Health quity keywords: Immigrants language: en has_fulltext: FALSE doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00652 view_date_year: 2020 full_text_status: none publication: Health Affairs volume: vol. 39 number: n° 8 pagerange: 1-5 refereed: TRUE issn: 1544-5208 oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:124364 harvester_local_overwrite: number harvester_local_overwrite: volume harvester_local_overwrite: creators_name harvester_local_overwrite: publish_to_hal harvester_local_overwrite: issn harvester_local_overwrite: faculty harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: pagerange harvester_local_overwrite: publisher harvester_local_overwrite: id_number harvester_local_overwrite: abstract harvester_local_overwrite: creators_affiliation harvester_local_overwrite: hal_id harvester_local_overwrite: hal_version harvester_local_overwrite: hal_url harvester_local_overwrite: hal_passwd harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid harvester_local_overwrite: title harvester_local_overwrite: date oai_lastmod: 2024-04-30T09:44:26Z oai_set: tse site: ut1 publish_to_hal: TRUE hal_id: hal-02861592 hal_passwd: mlfn72 hal_version: 1 hal_url: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02861592 citation: Reinhart, Eric and Chen, Daniel L. (2020) Incarceration and its disseminations: COVID-19 pandemic lessons from Chicago’s Cook County jail. Health Affairs, vol. 39 (n° 8). pp. 1-5.