Kelly ServickScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.Even before COVID-19 began to sweep through U.S.
correctional facilities, Michael Daniels saw the storm coming. As the director of justice policy and programs for Franklin county in Ohio, Daniels knew the county’s two jails, with about 1950 inmates, wouldn’t allow for social distancing to control the coronavirus’ spread.
So, back in March, he asked his team: How could they get as many people as possible out of there quickly?In New York City, Elizabeth Glazer, director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, was having similar conversations.