NDRN Thanks Representative Pressley and Senator Warren for Introducing the COVID-19 in Corrections Data Transparency Act

October 8, 2020
NDRN Thanks Representative Pressley and Senator Warren for Introducing the COVID-19 in Corrections Data Transparency Act

The National Disability Rights Network thanked Representative Pressley and Senator Warren for introducing the COVID-19 in Corrections Data Transparency Act. The bill will improve the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in our nation’s correctional facilities which include incarcerated individuals with disabilities by requiring the collection and reporting of critical weekly information about COVID-19 in jails, prisons, juvenile facilities, and other correctional facilities and mandate data disaggregation by disability.