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    Crowded U.S. Jails Drove Millions Of COVID-19 Cases, A New Study Says

    The U.S. jail population has a 55% weekly turnover rate, raising the risk of infections passing between communities, according to the study.
    by Bill Chappell Sep 02, 2021 2 minutes
    Inmates do a deep cleaning in a cell pod to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the San Diego County Jail on April 24, 2020. A new study says crowded jails may have contributed to millions of COVID-19 cases across the U.S.

    If the U.S. had done more to reduce its incarceration rate, it could have prevented millions of COVID-19 cases.

    That's the conclusion of researchers who conducted what they say is the first study to link mass incarceration rates to pandemic vulnerability. Many of those preventable cases, they add, occurred in communities of color.

    The acts as an epidemic engine, according to the study from researchers at Northwestern University

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