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COVID-19 in corrections: Quarantine of incarcerated people

Carceral settings in the United States have been the source of many single site COVID-19 outbreaks. Quarantine is a strategy used to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in correctional settings, and specific quarantine practices differ state to state. To better understand how states are using quarantine...

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Autores principales: Maner, Morgan, LeMasters, Katherine, Lao, Jennifer, Cowell, Mariah, Nowotny, Kathryn, Cloud, David, Brinkley-Rubinstein, Lauren
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8491943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34610015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257842
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LeMasters, Katherine
Lao, Jennifer
Cowell, Mariah
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Cloud, David
Brinkley-Rubinstein, Lauren
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description Carceral settings in the United States have been the source of many single site COVID-19 outbreaks. Quarantine is a strategy used to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in correctional settings, and specific quarantine practices differ state to state. To better understand how states are using quarantine in prisons, we reviewed each state’s definition of quarantine and compared each state’s definition to the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) definition and recommendations for quarantine in jails and prisons. Most prison systems, 45 of 53, define quarantine, but definitions vary widely. No state published definitions of quarantine that align with all CDC recommendations, and only 9 states provide quarantine data. In these states, the highest recorded quarantine rate occurred in Ohio in May 2020 at 843 per 1,000. It is necessary for prison systems to standardize their definitions of quarantine and to utilize quarantine practices in accordance with CDC recommendations. In addition, data transparency is needed to better understand the use of quarantine and its effectiveness at mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks in carceral settings.
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spelling pubmed-84919432021-10-06 COVID-19 in corrections: Quarantine of incarcerated people Maner, Morgan LeMasters, Katherine Lao, Jennifer Cowell, Mariah Nowotny, Kathryn Cloud, David Brinkley-Rubinstein, Lauren PLoS One Research Article Carceral settings in the United States have been the source of many single site COVID-19 outbreaks. Quarantine is a strategy used to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in correctional settings, and specific quarantine practices differ state to state. To better understand how states are using quarantine in prisons, we reviewed each state’s definition of quarantine and compared each state’s definition to the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) definition and recommendations for quarantine in jails and prisons. Most prison systems, 45 of 53, define quarantine, but definitions vary widely. No state published definitions of quarantine that align with all CDC recommendations, and only 9 states provide quarantine data. In these states, the highest recorded quarantine rate occurred in Ohio in May 2020 at 843 per 1,000. It is necessary for prison systems to standardize their definitions of quarantine and to utilize quarantine practices in accordance with CDC recommendations. In addition, data transparency is needed to better understand the use of quarantine and its effectiveness at mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks in carceral settings. Public Library of Science 2021-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8491943/ /pubmed/34610015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257842 Text en © 2021 Maner et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34610015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257842
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