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.
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