Estimating the reciprocal relationship between COVID-19 infections of prisoners and staff and infections in the surrounding communitieshttps://doi.org/10.48349/ASU/OMJKFZWallace, DanielleEason, JohnASU Library Research Data Repository2025-07-102025-07-10T16:56:35ZDuring the pandemic, the Federal Bureau of Prison's (BOP) COVID-19 dashboard provided daily (updated at 3pm EST nightly) updates on active COVID-19 cases, recoveries, and associated deaths for staff and incarcerated persons by each prison facility (including administrative, medical, and community corrections faculties) in the federal prison system. To collect this information daily, we engaged in nightly, automated web scraping, resulting in a longitudinal panel dataset of COVID-19 information by prison. In the nightly scrape, we also obtained population counts of incarcerated persons in different types of incarceration (in-prison incapacitation v. home confinement v. on community corrections), as well as in private prisons within with BOP system. Additionally, the BOP reported COVID-19 counts for incarcerated persons and staff in community corrections facilities. Lastly, the BOP reported the COVID-19 counts for incarcerated persons in private prisons, but did not report staff COVID-19 counts. The data collection window begins on April 16th, 2020 and ends on July 8th, 2021.Social SciencesImprisonmentCOVID-19incarcerated personsPrisonersCorrectional personnelEnglishWallace, D., Eason, J. M., Walker, J., Towers, S., Grubesic, T. H., & Nelson, J. R. (2021). Is there a temporal relationship between COVID-19 infections among prison staff, incarcerated persons and the larger community in the United States?. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(13), 6873., doi, 10.3390/ijerph18136873, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136873Wallace, D., Walker, J., Nelson, J., Towers, S., Eason, J., & Grubesic, T. H. (2021). The 2020 coronavirus pandemic and its corresponding data boon: Issues with pandemic-related DATA from criminal justice organizations. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 37(4), 543-568., doi, 10.1177/10439862211027993, https://doi.org/10.1177/10439862211027993Grubesic, T.H., Nelson, J.R., Wallace, D. et al. Geodemographic insights on the COVID-19 pandemic in the State of Wisconsin and the role of risky facilities. GeoJournal 87, 4311–4333 (2022)., doi, 10.1007/s10708-021-10503-5, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-021-10503-5Towers, S., Wallace, D., Walker, J. et al. A study of SARS-COV-2 outbreaks in US federal prisons: the linkage between staff, incarcerated populations, and community transmission. BMC Public Health 22, 482 (2022)., doi, 10.1186/s12889-022-12813-w, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12813-wScott-Hayward, C., Wallace, D., & Mavrikos, A. (2024). The Federal Prison System Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Criminal Law Bulletin, 60(2), p. 212-2292025-07-10Wallace, DanielleWallace, DanielleWalker, Jason2025-07-062020-04-162021-07-08Data was collected from the Federal Bureau of Prison's (BOP) COVID-19 dashboard (see bop.gov/coronavirus) which is no longer available. To see a version of the website when it was available, you can visit: https://web.archive.org/web/20230509112633/https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/CC0 1.0