A call to protect patients, correctional staff and healthcare professionals in jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oladeru, OT; Tran, N-T; Al-Rousan, T; Williams, B; Zaller, N

A call to protect patients, correctional staff and healthcare professionals in jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oladeru, OT Tran, N-T Al-Rousan, T Williams, B Zaller, N

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Publisher:: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Health & justice, 2020, 8, (1), pp. 17
Issue Date:: 2020-07-02

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dc.contributor.author	Oladeru, OT
dc.contributor.author	Tran, N-T
dc.contributor.author	Al-Rousan, T
dc.contributor.author	Williams, B
dc.contributor.author	Zaller, N
dc.date.accessioned	2020-11-04T19:42:51Z
dc.date.available	2020-06-23
dc.date.available	2020-11-04T19:42:51Z
dc.date.issued	2020-07-02
dc.identifier.citation	Health & justice, 2020, 8, (1), pp. 17
dc.identifier.issn	2194-7899
dc.identifier.issn	2194-7899
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/143751
dc.description.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.
dc.format	Electronic
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Springer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.relation.ispartof	Health & justice
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1186/s40352-020-00119-1
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Health & justice. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-020-00119-1.	en_US
dc.subject	1117 Public Health and Health Services, 1602 Criminology
dc.title	A call to protect patients, correctional staff and healthcare professionals in jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic.
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	8
utslib.location.activity	England
utslib.for	1117 Public Health and Health Services
utslib.for	1602 Criminology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2020-11-04T19:42:39Z
pubs.issue	1
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	8
utslib.citation.issue	1

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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