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It’s an “unprecedented, stressful” time for those confined to prison during the pandemic—and for those who work in them, a webinar was told Wednesday. The lack of clear guidance about when a vaccine will be available to correctional populations hasn’t helped matters.
A federal prison complex in Louisiana, FCC Oakdale, failed to comply with federal health guidance, leaving inmates infected with COVID-19 with otherwise healthy inmates in their housing units for weeks, the Justice Department’s inspector general said Tuesday. The report comes as coronavirus cases continue to rise at an alarming rate throughout America and behind bars.
The pandemic has taken its deadliest toll on America’s prisons and jails. New guidelines prepared by a panel of experts in corrections, correctional health, economics, epidemiology, and related fields offer ways to mitigate the harm.
If the ACA is struck down by the Supreme Court, so will be the Medicaid expansion—and formerly incarcerated individuals will be left uninsured and unable to get the care they need, says a new report from the Square One project.
With at least 231 deaths from COVID-19 in Texas prisons and jails, the state has seen more infections and deaths among incarcerated people and staff than any other in the nation, according to a new report from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
A study by the Safety and Justice Challege of six major jurisdictions finds fewer jail inmates during COVID-19, but delays in processing criminal charges could send the jail numbers back up.
At least five jails this year have switched to email for inmates, combating the double threat of coronavirus and drugs sent through physical mail. But is there a threat to inmate privacy?
With COVID-19 rates in prisons still at five times the rate of the general population, authorities should “use their discretion” to minimize incarceration in prisons and jails, concluded a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Although some inmates with serious mental illness benefit from being separated from others, solitary confinement can aggravate symptoms of serious mental illness and have grave mental health consequences. Authorities should start considering the increasing number of evidence-based practices available as alternatives, writes a Washington state clinical and forensic psychiatrist.
COVID-19 outbreaks continue their rapid growth in the nation’s jails, prisons, and detention centers, says a new report for the Council on Criminal Justice by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.