A call to protect patients, correctional staff and healthcare professionals in jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health Justice
; 8(1): 17, 2020 Jul 02.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-621506
ABSTRACT
This editorial describes why surge planning in the community must account for potential infection outbreaks in jails and prisons, and why incarcerated people and those in contact with them, including over 450,000 correctional officers and thousands of healthcare staff working in prisons, are at significant risk of COVID-19 exposure. We then explain how our nation's jails and prisons will continue to serve as breeding grounds for devastating COVID-19 outcomes and offer specific guidance and a call to action for the immediate development of correctional healthcare strategies designed to protect the health and safety of patients and correctional and healthcare staff and the communities in which they are situated. Correctional officers and correctional healthcare professionals need the nation's reassurance during this dire time that they will not be abandoned and further stigmatized for responding to the needs of incarcerated people. Our collective health depends on it.
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MEDLINE
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Health Justice
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S40352-020-00119-1
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