SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has ravaged high-density areas ranging from New York City to rural churches. Prisons, however, have been largely undiscussed hotspots of infection and death. Incarcerated people are 550% more likely to contract COVID-19 and 300% more likely to die from it than non-incarcerated people, according to an article by Brendan Saloner, PhD; Kalind Parish, MA; Julie A. Ward, MN, RN1; Grace DiLaura, JD2; and Sharon Dolovich, JD, PhD; published in the Journal of the American Medical Association published July 2020. How did it get his bad? According to an article published in Forbes, "Close confinement, limited PPE and increased risk of cardiac and respiratory conditions makes prison populations especially vulnerable to coronavirus" with outbreaks in some prisons exceeding an infection rate of 65%. The Prison Policy Initiative has identified numerous ways that the criminal justice system could help "flatten the curve" of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as by reducing jail populations and improving access to and quality of healthcare in carceral institutions. Instead, California's San Quentin prison declined free tests and advice, North Carolina has maintained its parole abolition (established in 1994), and Louisiana has reversed recommendations to release people from carceral institutions where physical distancing is impossible. Below, find the COVID-19 data and plans published by Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).