(Map: Emily Widra, 2021)
This map originally appeared in States of emergency: The failure of prison system responses to COVID-19.
Some states — like North Dakota, New Jersey, and Oregon — were particularly successful in prioritizing the vaccination of incarcerated people, starting vaccinations in prisons early and getting people to accept the vaccine behind bars. Other states — like New York, Nebraska, Montana, and Indiana — have not done nearly as well with starting vaccines early and providing vaccine choices for incarcerated people. For detailed information, see the vaccination appendix table.
Events
- March 19, 2025:
Join Prison Policy Initiative’s Advocacy Department at 1 PM EST on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, for a webinar about understanding recidivism. We will cover strategies from our recidivism toolkit, including an overview of recidivism statistics and what they really mean, how to combat the “Willie Horton” effect, and ways that advocates can transform the narrative around reentry to make it less focused on negative outcomes and more focused on the ways that returning citizens contribute to their communities.
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