Decarcerating correctional facilities during COVID-19 : advancing health, equity, and safety / Committee on the Best Practices for Implementing Decarceration as a Strategy to Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities ; Emily A. Wang, Bruce Western, Emily P. Backes, and Julie Schuck, editors ; Committee on Law and Justice; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education ; the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.

"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 Authors:	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 (Contributor), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Law and Justice (Contributor), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (Contributor)
Other Authors:	Wang, Emily A. (Editor), Western, Bruce, 1964- (Editor), Backes, Emily P. (Editor), Schuck, Julie Anne (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : the National Academies Press, [2020] ©2020
Series:	Consensus study report.
Subjects:	COVID-19 (Disease) > Transmission. COVID-19 (Disease) > Prevention. Early release programs. Public health laws.
Physical Description:	xiv, 146 pages : charts ; 23 cm.
Format:	Book