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Managing outbreaks of highly contagious diseases in prisons: a systematic review
BMJ Global Health, 2020 Background There are reports of outbreaks of COVID-19 in prisons in many countries. Responses to date have been highly variable and it is not clear whether public health guidance has been informed by the best available evidence. We conducted a systematic
Gabrielle Beaudry +5 more
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Prisons and Crime in Latin America
, 2021 This groundbreaking work examines Latin America’s prison crisis and the failure of mass incarceration policies. As crime rates rose over the past few decades, policy makers adopted incarceration as the primary response to public outcry.
Marcelo Bergman, Gustavo Fondevila
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Foreign national prisoners in the UK: explanations and implications [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines the rapid expansion of the foreign national prison population in the UK against a backdrop of public and political anxiety about immigration and crime.
Allen +43 more
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Prison Health Discharge Planning- Evidence of an integrated care pathway or the end of the road? [PDF]
, 2013 This article is based on research conducted in several prisons in North East England. It explores the effectiveness of prisons, and the wider criminal justice system, at meeting the healthcare needs of inmates as they leave prison, or transfer between ...
Bradley +10 more
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, 2016 With its July 2015 announcement of the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program, the U.S. Department of Education ushered in what could be a new era of expanded opportunities for postsecondary education in our nation's prisons. The Second Chance Pell Pilot makes
Fred Patrick +2 more
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COVID-19 in prisons: an impossible challenge for public health?
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2020 Brazil has 748,000 prison inmates 1, 50,000 of whom in the state of Rio de Janeiro alone, who are practically absent from the public debate on COVID-19.
Alexandra Sánchez +3 more
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Prevention and control of COVID-19 in nursing homes, orphanages, and prisons
Environmental Pollution, 2020 As the number of Coronavirus Disease (2019) (COVID-19) cases increase globally, countries are taking more aggressive preventive measures against this pandemic.
Jiao Wang +10 more
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Fighting covid-19 outbreaks in prisons [PDF]
, 2020 Improving prison health services is critical for fighting epidemics such as covid-19. Prisoners are at much higher risk of infectious diseases than communities outside.
Thompson, Julian R., Yang, Hong
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Pregnancy Outcomes in US Prisons, 2016-2017
American Journal of Public Health, 2019 Objectives To collect national data on pregnancy frequencies and outcomes among women in US state and federal prisons. Methods From 2016 to 2017, we prospectively collected 12 months of pregnancy statistics from a geographically diverse sample of 22 ...
C. Sufrin +4 more
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Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2014 The author, based on the circumstances that contributed to the creation of private prisons, has explained the historical development of private prisons in the United States and Great Britain.
Dimovski Darko
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