Prisons and custodial settings are part of a comprehensive response to COVID-19
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Young, Jesse T
Snow, Kathryn
Southalan, Louise
Lopez-Acuna, Daniel
Ferreira-Borges, Carina
O'Moore, Eamonn
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Prisons are epicentres for infectious diseases because of the higher background prevalence of infection, the higher levels of risk factors for infection, the unavoidable close contact in often overcrowded, poorly ventilated, and unsanitary facilities, and the poor access to healthcare services relative to that in community settings.1 Infections can be transmitted between prisoners, staff and visitors, between prisons through transfers and staff cross-deployment, and to and from the community. As such, prisons and other custodial settings are an integral part of the public health response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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The Lancet Public Health
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4
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© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Criminology
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
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HEALTH
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Kinner, SA; Young, JT; Snow, K; Southalan, L; Lopez-Acuna, D; Ferreira-Borges, C; O'Moore, E, Prisons and custodial settings are part of a comprehensive response to COVID-19, The Lancet Public Health, 2020, 5 (4), pp. E188-E189