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A Half-Million People Got COVID-19 in Prison. Are Officials Ready for the Next Pandemic?

By Katie Park, Keri Blakinger, and Claudia Lauer Derrick Johnson had a makeshift mask. He had the spray bottle of bleach and extra soap that corrections officers provided. But he still spent every day crammed in a unit with 63 other men…
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1 in 5 Prisoners in the U.S. has had COVID-19.

By Beth Schwartzapfel, Katie Park, and Andrew Demullo One in every five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, a rate more than four times as high as the general population. In some states,…
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One Year In: COVID-19 and Mental Health

By Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. Director for NIMH It has been just over a year now since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic struck the United States full force. A year of hunkering down and Zooming in, teleworking and telepsychiatry, economic…