Some States Are Cloaking Prison COVID Data
PEW Florida and Georgia as well as Texas, provide even less information than they once did, according to researchers. The Behind Bars Data Project noted that while prison reporting had been “plagued by deep inadequacies” since the start of the pandemic, corrections systems cut back even more on public data in recent months. States have explained that they cut back on public data because of a decline in cases, even though they began making the change before the surge of the delta variant.