Decarcerating Correctional Facilities During Covid-19: Advancing Health, Equity, and Safety

by Committee on the Best Practices for Implementing Decarceration as a Strategy to Mitigate the Spread, Committee on Law and Justice, National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, et al.

The conditions and characteristics of correctional facilities - overcrowded with rapid population turnover, often in old and poorly ventilated structures, a spatially concentrated pattern of releases and admissions in low-income communities of color, and a health care system that is siloed from community public health - accelerates transmission of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) responsible for COVID-19. Such conditions increase the risk of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309683572
• ISBN13: 9780309683579
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"