COVID-19 amplified racial disparities in the US criminal legal system
Klein B, Ogbunugafor C, Schafer B, Bhadricha Z, Kori P, Sheldon J, Kaza N, Sharma A, Wang E, Eliassi-Rad T, Scarpino S, Hinton E. COVID-19 amplified racial disparities in the US criminal legal system. Nature 2023, 617: 344-350. PMID: 37076624, PMCID: PMC10172107, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05980-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCriminal legal systemLegal systemPrison populationRacial inequalityUS prison populationRacial disparitiesAverage sentence lengthWhite peopleDistrict of ColumbiaPrisoner demographicsPrison systemIncarcerated peopleIncarceration ratesUS prisonsMass incarcerationSentence lengthPrisonRacial compositionIncarcerationLatino peopleSocial sciencesCOVID-19InequalityDisparitiesPeople