This Working Group will address the linked impacts of mass incarceration and racial and socioeconomic residential segregation on the spread of COVID-19 in the United States. It will focus specifically on COVID-19 transmission in the Cook County Jail and in Chicago neighborhoods impacted by mass incarceration.
Mitigating Inequality in COVID-19: Incarceration, Segregation, and Poverty
Working Group Lead
Jon Zelner, University of Michigan
Email: jzelner@umich.edu
Working Group Members
Christopher Muller, University of California, Berkeley
Ramya Naraharisett, University of Michigan
Kyle Popovich, Rush University
Evan Snitkin, University of Michigan
Stephanie Thiede, University of Michigan
