COVID Behind Bars: COVID Prison Policy Index, United States, 2020-2021 (ICPSR 38730)
Version Date: Apr 10, 2023 View help for published
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Grace DiLaura, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Court;
Sharon Dolovich, University of California, Los Angeles;
Danielle Flores;
Cecilia Bobbitt, Covington & Burling LLP
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38730.v1
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The COVID Behind Bars: COVID Prison Policy Index is a collection of data from captured web pages, originally posted by prison agency websites, that display information about those agencies' policy responses to COVID-19. Researchers looked at any discussion of how the prison systems responded to COVID-19 across a range of topics (testing, masks, transfers, facilities, etc.).
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Geographic Coverage View help for Geographic Coverage
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State
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- For more information on the COVID Behind Bars: COVID Prison Policy Index Study, please visit the Policy Project Index website.
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Acknowledgements: The COVID Prison Policy Index was made possible by the volunteer work of Ilina Bhor, Claire Bridgen, Kim De Law Cruz, D. Korbin Felder, Arash Fotoohi, Cynthia Anne Golembeski, Alison Gordon, Alison Herbst, Jason Ho, Alison Jenson, Nicholas Keller, Charlie Kelsey, Angel Lee, Gabrielle Mazero, Anna Meyer, Samantha Noor, Anna Norkett, Eireann O'Grady, Kalind Parish, Ellie Pearce, Harshini Pyata, Katy Ramos, Rebecca Rifkind-Brown, Abraham Rinck, Dawy Rkasnuam, Dorah Rosen, Kathryn Rosenfeld, Olivia Shields, Noah Simon, Chloe Smith, Jana Sun, Kayla Teng, Shelby Weaver, Kennedy Willis, and Richard Young.
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The purpose of this study was to collect information about prison agencies' policy responses to COVID-19.
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Captured web pages, originally posted by prison agency websites, that display information about those agencies' policy responses to COVID-19.
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Variables include basic information about each prison represented, such as geographic information, as well as coded variables about the types of COVID-19 policies the prisons pursued, based on the information gathered from web scraping.
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2023-04-10
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2023-04-10 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
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