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Flattening the Curve for Incarcerated Populations — Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons

Title (Dublin Core)

Flattening the Curve for Incarcerated Populations — Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons

Description (Dublin Core)

The spread of coronavirus has highlighted people and places who are most at risk for contracting and spreading the virus and the nation's incarcerated people are high risk for both. The people entering the prison system come from already vulnerable populations and half of the incarcerated population already has at least one chronic illness. This puts them at greater odds of contracting and dying from the disease.
This article explains what measures the Federal Bureau of Prisons have taken to limit the spread of the disease and the authors, three doctors, suggest a three prong approach but fall back on the real way to slow the spread is to release people who are not likely to be a public threat.
HST580, ASU
prison, jail, incarcerated, ChronicDisease, SocialDistancing, FederalBureauOfPrisons, CommunityHealth

Date (Dublin Core)

April 2, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Matthew J. Akiyama M.D.
Anne C. Spaulding, M.D
Josiah D. Rich, M.D.

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Publisher (Dublin Core)

The New England Journal of Medicine

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Government Federal
English Crime

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

prison
jail
policies
prisoners
flattening the curve
overpopulation
#lockedupwithcovid
chronic illness

Collection (Dublin Core)

Incarceration

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

06/10/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

06/18/2020
06/23/2020
08/02/2022
10/13/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

05/28/2020

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This item was submitted on June 10, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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