Spotlight on Jails: COVID-19 Mitigation Policies Needed Now

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa346

. 2020 Jul 28;71(15):891-892.

doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa346.

Spotlight on Jails: COVID-19 Mitigation Policies Needed Now

Alysse G Wurcel¹, Emily Dauria^{2

3}, Nicholas Zaller⁴, Ank Nijhawan⁵, Curt Beckwith⁶, Kathryn Nowotny⁷, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein⁸

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¹ Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ Division of Infant Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴ Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
⁷ Department of Sociology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.
⁸ Department of Social Medicine, Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

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PMCID: PMC7385748
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa346

Spotlight on Jails: COVID-19 Mitigation Policies Needed Now

Alysse G Wurcel et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 28;71(15):891-892.

doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa346.

Authors

Alysse G Wurcel¹, Emily Dauria^{2

3}, Nicholas Zaller⁴, Ank Nijhawan⁵, Curt Beckwith⁶, Kathryn Nowotny⁷, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein⁸

Affiliations

¹ Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ Division of Infant Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴ Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
⁷ Department of Sociology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.
⁸ Department of Social Medicine, Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

PMID: 32221515
PMCID: PMC7385748
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa346

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[1] US Department of Health and Human Services. Secretary Azar declares public health emergency for United States for 2019 novel coronavirus [press release] 2020. Available at: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/01/31/secretary-azar-declares-public.... Accessed 28 March 2020.

[2] US Department of Health and Human Services. Secretary Azar declares public health emergency for United States for 2019 novel coronavirus [press release] 2020. Available at: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/01/31/secretary-azar-declares-public.... Accessed 28 March 2020.

[3] Zeng Z. Jail inmates in 2017. Washington, DC: US Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2019.

[4] Zeng Z. Jail inmates in 2017. Washington, DC: US Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2019.

[5] Dumont DM, Brockmann B, Dickman S, Alexander N, Rich JD. Public health and the epidemic of incarceration. Annu Rev Public Health 2012; 33:325–39. - PMC - PubMed

[6] Dumont DM, Brockmann B, Dickman S, Alexander N, Rich JD. Public health and the epidemic of incarceration. Annu Rev Public Health 2012; 33:325–39. - PMC - PubMed

[7] Maruschak LM, Sabol WJ, Potter RH, Reid LC, Cramer EW. Pandemic influenza and jail facilities and populations. Am J Public Health 2009; 99(Suppl 2):S339–44. - PMC - PubMed

[8] Maruschak LM, Sabol WJ, Potter RH, Reid LC, Cramer EW. Pandemic influenza and jail facilities and populations. Am J Public Health 2009; 99(Suppl 2):S339–44. - PMC - PubMed

[9] Prison Policy Initiative. The company store: a deeper look at prison commissaries [press release]. Easthampton, MA: Prison Policy Initiative, 2018.

[10] Prison Policy Initiative. The company store: a deeper look at prison commissaries [press release]. Easthampton, MA: Prison Policy Initiative, 2018.

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