An Initiative of the UCLA Prison Law and Policy Program
Project Director: Sharon Dolovich, Professor of Law
Deputy Director: Aaron Littman, Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow
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Questions? Contact Senior Program manager at [email protected]
1 COVID-19 Jail/Prison Confirmed Cases & Deaths
Tracking viral spread, screening procedures, and testing *Explanation of this dataset is in our Data Dictionary located on https://github.com/uclalawcovid19behindbars/data
Content Moderators: Michael Everett, Hope Johnson, Neal Marquez, & Erika Tyagi (Data Science Fellows)
Content Moderating Team
2 COVID-19 Prison/ICE Aggregate Cases and Deaths For tab-specific questions, feel free to reach out to the tab's respective moderator(s).
Statewide aggregate totals *Explanation of this dataset is in our Data Dictionary located on https://github.com/uclalawcovid19behindbars/data See the full project org chart here: https://bit.ly/cbb020722
Project Director Contact Information
Bennett Stein [email protected]
Volunteer Coordinator
Josephine Wang [email protected]
3 COVID-19 Related Jail Releases Content Moderators Contact Information
Content Moderators: Maddy deLone (Former Executive Director of NY Innocence Project), Andrés Fernández Carrasco (Releases Coordinator), & Ananya Prakash (Releases Coordinator) Theresa Cheng [email protected]
Maddy deLone [email protected]
Anamely Prakash [email protected]
Michael Everett [email protected]
Andrés Fernández Carrasco [email protected]
4 COVID-19 Related Prison Releases Rebecca Fordon [email protected]
Tracking number of residents released from prison population reduction efforts Ananya Prakash [email protected]
Content Moderators: Maddy deLone (Former Executive Director of NY Innocence Project), Andrés Fernández Carrasco (Releases Coordinator), & Ananya Prakash (Releases Coordinator) Ben Woolley [email protected]
Elif Yücel [email protected]
Requests for authoritiative actions necessary to reduce correctional population densities
6 COVID-19 Correctional Pop. Reduction Responses
System responses and authoritative actions to reduce correctional population densities
Content Moderator: Danielle Flores (Project Coordinator)
7 COVID-19 Related Legal Filings & Court Orders
Tracking specific legal requests and court orders
Content Moderator: Rebecca Fordon (UCLA Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library)
8 COVID-19 Related Immigration Filings
Cataloging immigration-related filings self-reported by attorneys *Explanation of this dataset is in our Data Dictionary located on https://github.com/uclalawcovid19behindbars/data
Content Moderator: Ben Woolley (JD)
9 COVID-19 Related Youth Filings & Court Orders
Tracking specific legal requests and court orders regarding youth facilities
Content Moderator: Ian Duke & Elif Yücel (M.Ed; PhD Student Urban Education Policy)
10 COVID-19 Immigration Detention Facilities
Confirmed cases, requests for decarceration, responses, and policy in immigration detention facilities
Content Moderators: Theresa Cheng (MD/JD)
11 COVID-19 Youth Correctional Facilities
Confirmed cases, requests for decarceration, and responses in youth correctional facilities
Content Moderator: Naila Segule (MS Environmental Health Candidate) & Ashwini Velchamy (JD)
11 COVID-19 Youth Correctional Facilities Policies
Tracking policies in youth correctional facilities
Content Moderator: Ian Duke & Elif Yücel (M.Ed; PhD Student Urban Education Policy)
12 COVID-19 Visitation Policy by State (Prisons)
Tracking visitation suspension policies and offerings of compensatory remote access
Content Moderator: Danielle Flores (Project Coordinator)
13 COVID-19 Jail/Prison Condition Policies
Descriptive summaries of ongoing policies affecting carceral conditions
Content Moderator: Danielle Flores (Project Coordinator)
14 COVID-19 Fundraisers & Mutual Aid Efforts
Links and descriptions of COVID-19 fundraising efforts
Content Moderator: Benito Guijarro & Josephine Wang
15 Grassroots and Other COVID-19 Organizing Efforts
Other organized efforts and grassroots campaigns
Content Moderator: Josephine Wang
16 Additional Resources
Collection of additional useful resources, recommendations, and databases
Content Moderator: Danielle Flores (Project Coordinator)