Carceral Studies Library Resources

Online & Local Resources

Incarceration and COVID-19

COVID Prison Project 

A public-facing database created by a group of interdisciplinary public health scientists providing recent data on the state of COVID-19 within US correctional facilities 

Global news coverage of COVID-19 and prisons

A crowdsourced document initiated by the UF Intersections on Mass Incarceration grant team during Spring / Summer 2020 to track the international effects of the unfolding COVID-19 crisis on prisons and detention centers around the globe.

COVID-19 and the criminal justice system

Briefings, reports, and data from the Prison Policy Initiative 

National 

AVID Prison Project 
http://www.avidprisonproject.org/

Equal Justice Initiative 
https://eji.org/criminal-justice-reform/

COVID Prison Project 
https://covidprisonproject.com/about-us/

Marshall Project 
https://www.themarshallproject.org/

Participatory Defense Network 
https://www.participatorydefense.org/

Prisoner Advocacy Network 
https://www.prisoneradvocacynetwork.org/

Project Avary
https://www.projectavary.org/

Reentry and Housing Coalition 
http://www.reentryandhousing.org/

Restorative Justice Coalition 
https://www.restorativejusticecoalition.com/

Sentencing Project 
https://www.sentencingproject.org/

Transgender Law Center 
https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/prisons

Florida 

Florida Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls 
https://floridacouncilfreeher.wordpress.com/

Florida Innocence Project 
https://www.floridainnocence.org/

Florida Justice Institute 
https://www.floridajusticeinstitute.org/

Florida Prison Education Project (UCF)
https://cah.ucf.edu/fpep/

Florida Restorative Justice Association 
https://www.floridarestorativejustice.com/ 

Gainesville / Alachua County 

Legal Empowerment and Advocacy Hub (L.E.A.H.) 
http://leahforjustice.com/

Stetson Kennedy Library, Civic Media Center 
https://www.civicmediacenter.org/our-collection  

River Pheonix Center for Peacebuilding 
https://www.centerforpeacebuilding.org