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Life During COVID for Court-Involved People

Samantha Plummer, Timothy Ittner, Angie Monreal, Jasmin Sandelson, Bruce Western
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences May 2023, 9 (3) 232-251; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.10
Samantha Plummer
aAssociate research scholar in the Justice Lab at Columbia University, United States
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Timothy Ittner
bDoctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, United States
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Angie Monreal
cDoctoral student in the Department of Sociology at University of California, Irvine, United States
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Jasmin Sandelson
dAssociate research scholar in the Justice Lab at Columbia University, United States
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Bruce Western
eBryce Professor of Sociology and Social Justice and director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University, United States
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Samantha Plummer, Timothy Ittner, Angie Monreal, Jasmin Sandelson, Bruce Western
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences May 2023, 9 (3) 232-251; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.10

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Life During COVID for Court-Involved People
Samantha Plummer, Timothy Ittner, Angie Monreal, Jasmin Sandelson, Bruce Western
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences May 2023, 9 (3) 232-251; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.10
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    • MATERIAL HARDSHIP, CRIMINAL JUSTICE INVOLVEMENT, AND HEALTH
    • THE EARLY SPREAD OF COVID-19 IN PRISONS AND JAILS
    • COVID, RIKERS ISLAND, AND MATERIAL HARDSHIP
    • DATA
    • COVID-19 ON RIKERS ISLAND
    • HEALTH AND HARDSHIP OUT OF JAIL
    • QUALITATIVE RESULTS
    • DISCUSSION
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Keywords

  • criminal legal system
  • poverty
  • jails
  • health
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  • coronavirus

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