COVID-19 Correctional Pop. Reduction Requests

This data set was the origin point of the Data Project, created so that during the early days of the pandemic advocates could share their work and see what others were writing in their legal filings, demand letters, petitions, etc. The targets of these efforts represented the broad sweep of public officials with authority over releases, including governors, sheriffs, prosecutors, state courts, federal courts, and probation chiefs. Our initial spreadsheet tab quickly became full of many different kinds of work product directed to the various, different authorities so we soon decided to break it out into separate tabs. This was the origin of, among other datasets, COVID-19 Jail Releases and COVID-19 Prison Releases (both initially helmed by Maddy DeLone), and our COVID-19-Related Legal Filings and Court Orders database, which eventually grew into a collaboration of UCLAW, Columbia Law School, zealous and Bronx Defenders and is now available on the Health Is Justice Litigation Hub (which will soon be moving to the COVID Behind Bars Data Project website).