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                                    Communicable Diseases In Correctional Facilities

      

                    
          
    Communicable Diseases in Correctional Facilities
Communicable diseases within corrections settings are prevalent among justice-involved individuals. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, over 5 million people are estimated to be under the supervision of U.S. adult correctional systems (in prison or jail, or on probation or parole). The corrections population (incarcerated and staff alike) 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. A higher prevalence of communicable diseases among people in prison compared with the general public is recognized as a public health issue as well as a major concern for the people affected, as the majority of incarcerated people return to their communities.
      
                  communicable diseases in correctional facilities
                   NIC Resources
          Back to Normal: Considerations for Returning Jails to Pre-COVID-19 Operations
          Effects of COVID-19 on Prison Operations
          COVID-19: How are Pretrial Service Agencies Dealing with the Coronavirus? [Webinar]
          The Foundation of Practical Application of Risk, Need, and Responsivity in the Age of COVID-19 and Justice Reform

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      Accordion    Prevention and Facility Operations
      
      Operations & Workplace Strategies
              CDC Correctional Health Page
              Incarceration and Health: A Family Medicine Perspective (Position Paper) (2021)
              Corrections Checklist Helps Support Reentry During Pandemic (2020)
              Infectious disease surveillance in U.S. jails: Findings from a national survey (2022)
              Key Insights: COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention Facilities (2022)
              Paths to Improving Pandemic Preparedness in Jails and Prisons: Perspectives of Incarcerated People and Correctional Staff (2022)
              What the COVID-19 Pandemic Teaches About the essential Practices of Community Correction (2021)s and Supervision
              Managing outbreaks of highly contagious diseases in prisons: a systematic review (2020)
              The Global Impact of the Pandemic on Institutional and Community Corrections: Assessing Short-Term Crisis Management and Long-Term Change Strategies (2020)
              The pandemic in prison: interventions and overisolation (2020)
              Prisons' preparedness for pandemic flu and the ethical issues (2009)
              The Risk of COVID-19 Infection in Prisons and Prevention Strategies: A Systematic Review and a New Strategic Protocol of Prevention (2022)
              Accordion    COVID-19
      
      COVID-19 in Prisons and Jails (2023)
              Capstone Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic (2023)
              COVID-19 in Carceral Systems: A Review (2022)
              A Half-Million People Got COVID-19 in Prison. Are Officials Ready for the Next Pandemic? (2021)
              COVID-19 And HIV: Overlapping Pandemics For Criminal Justice-Involved Individuals (2021)
              Deprivation of the Right to Counsel for Federal Pretrial Detainees: During the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Pandemic, 54 UIC L. Rev. 659 (2021)
              COVID-19 Outbreaks in Correctional Facilities with Work-Release Programs — Idaho, July–November 2020
              Impact of COVID-19 on State and Federal Prisons, March 2020–February 2021
              Impact of COVID-19 on the Local Jail Population, January-June 2020
              Medical Isolation and Solitary Confinement: Balancing Health and Humanity in US Jails and Prisons During COVID-19 (2022)
              Outbreaks of COVID-19 variants in US prisons: a mathematical modelling analysis of vaccination and reopening policies (2021)
              Reducing COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons through public health-centered policies (2021)
              Stigmatization of psychiatric and justice-involved populations during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
              Using Data and Science to Understand the Impact of COVID–19 on Corrections (2021)
              Prisons and Pandemics (2020)
              Reducing Jail and Prison Populations During the Covid-19 Pandemic (2020)
              Accordion    HIV
      
      HIC and HCV in US Prisons and Jails: the Correctional Facility as a Bellweather Over Time for the Community's Infections
              HIV in Prisons, 2021 – Statistical Tables
              Accordion    Mpox
      
      CDC Releases New Resources for Mpox in Correctional Environments (2022)
              Accordion    Influenza
      
      Influenza Outbreak Prevention and Management in U.S. Carceral Settings: A Scoping Review (2022)
              How public health and prisons can partner for pandemic influenza preparedness: a report from Georgia (2009)
              Accordion    Medication and Treatment
      
      Adaptations to jail-based buprenorphine treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
              Vaccine Effectiveness during Outbreak of COVID-19 Alpha (B.1.1.7) Variant in Men’s Correctional Facility, United States (2022)
              Associations between psychosocial risk factors, and changes in substance dependence and psychosocial functioning, during engagement with digital cognitive beha...
              Accordion    Legal Discussion
      
      Justice Diseased Is Justice Denied: Coronavirus, Court Closures, and Criminal Trials (2020)

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