This spring, our research team (Stefania Arteaga, Anna Biache, Kalley Huang, Jessie Rios, and Max Rose) began requesting information from Sheriff Offices across North Carolina regarding their responses to COVID-19. In these requests, we wanted to collect the following information since this is not readily available (the case in most states, not just during COVID-19).

• Pre-COVD Population
• Current Population
• Healthy & Safety Protocols
• Decarceration Efforts/Jail Population Decrease Efforts
• COVID-19 Testing & Results

Please check back for more updates as this is an ongoing project. For now, feel free to review our summary data documents below.

LISTEN to an update from us and the Executive Director of the NC Community Bail Fund of Durham on The State of Things: How Are NC Jails Responding To COVID-19? (9/8/2020).

READ more about the issue here in a related chapter Incarceration during COVID- 19: Jail Shouldn’t be a Death Sentence and a draft policy memo that will be available soon on the Scholars Strategy Network site.

VIEW an overview powerpoint of information as of 5/27/2020.

This is our most recent summary document including information for the following counties: Alleghany, Ashe, Cabarrus, Duplin, Franklin, Iredell, Lee, Stanley, Swain, and Yancey

This is our 4th summary document including information for the following counties: Caldwell, Jackson, Moore, New Hanover, Pitt, Surry, Transylvania, Warren, Watauga, Wilkes

This is our 3rd summary document including information for the following counties: Chowan, Halifax, McDowell, Stokes, Orange, Vance

This is our 2nd summary document including information for the following counties: Bladen, Brunswick, Catawba, Currituck, Dare, Forsyth, Guilford, Halifax, Johnston, Lincoln, Nash, Northampton, Polk, Randolph, Rutherford, Union

This is our 1st summary document including information for the following counties: Buncombe, Carteret, Cherokee, Davidson, Haywood, Guilford, Lenior, Martin, Montgomery, Pasquotank, Rowan, Wayne

Some additional information (not collected by us) can be found on the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services in Congregate Living Settings. These reports are updated every Tuesday and Friday.