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A prison worker was confirmed to have COVID-19 on March 18—the DOC, citing "security and HIPAA restrictions", declined to name the affected prison. The first detected case of COVID-19 in a prison inmate was at Lee State Prison two days later, on March 20. [103] On March 21, CNN reported that three inmates tested positive for COVID-19 at Lee ...
A new report put out by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin details the impact of Texas's failure in particular to address the coronavirus crisis ...
A South Florida man facing prison for his role in stealing millions from a federal COVID-19 loan program not only faces a prison term but also another consequence of his crime — loss of his ...
According to the database, as of April 26, 2022, there had been 582,946 cases of COVID-19 among incarcerated persons in the US and 198,921 COVID-19 cases among staff working in prisons. [81] From those cases, there had been 2,875 deaths of incarcerated individuals in prisons due to COVID-19 and 277 deaths of staff in prisons due to COVID-19. [81]
Infectious diseases within American correctional settings are a concern within the public health sector. The corrections population is susceptible to infectious diseases through exposure to blood and other bodily fluids, drug injection, poor health care, prison overcrowding, demographics, security issues, lack of community support for rehabilitation programs, and high-risk behaviors. [1]
Limiting the use of RHUs has proven to increase violence in prisons. On April 1, 2022, New York passed a law that severely limits, or in some cases eliminates, the ability to place inmates in RHUs.
Seventy-four assaults take place every day in jails across England and Wales, new figures laying bare the lack of order in the prison estate have shown.. With prisons stretched to maximum capacity ...
The relatives of the prisoners at al-Wathba prison, al-Awir prison, and new al-Barsha detention center, informed the HRW that some of the prisoners who were tested positive with COVID-19 and many prisoners with chronic health conditions were denied proper medical aid. The prisons are overcrowded and the authorities have not maintained hygiene ...