RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Life During COVID for Court-Involved People
JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
FD Russell Sage Foundation
SP 232
OP 251
DO 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.10
VO 9
IS 3
A1 Samantha Plummer
A1 Timothy Ittner
A1 Angie Monreal
A1 Jasmin Sandelson
A1 Bruce Western
YR 2023
UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/9/3/232.abstract
AB Data from a unique survey of court-involved New Yorkers collected during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 provides evidence for a cycle of disadvantage involving penal control, material hardship, and health risk. We find evidence of chaotic jail conditions from March to May 2020 in the early phase of the pandemic, and high levels of housing and food insecurity, and joblessness for those leaving jail or with current criminal cases. The highest levels of material hardship—measured by housing insecurity, unemployment, shelter stays, and poor self-reported health—were experienced by those with mental illness and substance use problems who had been incarcerated.