The COVID Prison Project policy arm tracks, stores, codes, and analyzes the policies and related data that are related to COVID-19 in prisons for both people who are incarcerated and for staff. Data were collected from publicly available sources of statewide prison policies including Department of Corrections websites, Facebook pages, Twitter pages, and news releases for all 50 states, ICE, and the Federal BOP. Check out some of our data visualizations of quarantine, isolation, and masking policies below! If you have any suggestions or comments, please email us at healthandjustice@unc.edu.
Who We Are


Melissa Zielinski, PhD
Project Investigator
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Psychiatric Research Institute
Forrest Behne
Policy Analyst
UNC Re-Envisioning Health and Justice Lab


Mariah Cowell, MSW
Project Manager
UNC Re-Envisioning Health and Justice Lab
Emily Allen
Research Assistant
University of Central Arkansas


Hannah henderson
Research Assistant
Hendrix College
Rachel stewart
Research Assistant
Hendrix College


Steph Wilson
Research Assistant
University of Central Arkansas
Pearl Mcgowan
Research Assistant
University of Central Arkansas