Decarcerating correctional facilities during COVID-19 advancing health, equity, and safety

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 com...

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Corporate Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.) Committee on the Best Practices for Implementing Decarceration as a Strategy to Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities
Other Authors: Schuck, Julie Anne (Editor), Backes, Emily P. (Editor), Western, Bruce (Editor), Wang, Emily A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC The National Academies Press [2020], 2020
Series:Consensus study report
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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