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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01k0698b41b| Title: | Guidance for preventive and responsive measures to coronavirus for jails, prisons, immigration detention and youth facilities |
| Contributors: | Vera Institute of Justice |
| Keywords: | Coronavirus infections Jails—United States Prisoners—Health and hygiene—United States Juvenile detention—United States |
| Issue Date: | 18-Mar-2020 |
| Publisher: | The Institute |
| Place of Publication: | Brooklyn, N.Y. |
| Description: | The coronavirus, or COVID-19, has been declared by the World Health Organization to be a global pandemic. As the number of people infected in the United States grows exponentially, we must focus on prevention and containment in the criminal and immigration legal systems. It is not a matter of if, but when, coronavirus shows up in courts, jails, detention centers, prisons, and other places where the work of the criminal and immigration systems occur. Actors in these systems have a unique and critical role to play. The importance of this role is underscored by how vast the footprint of these systems is—almost 10.5 million arrests a year, 2.2 million people in jail and prison at any given time, 50,000 in immigration detention, and another 4.5 million under some form of criminal justice supervision on probation or parole. The Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) and Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) have created the guidance in this document to protect people who interact with and work in these systems. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01k0698b41b |
| Related resource: | https://www.vera.org/publications/coronavirus-guidance-for-criminal-and-immigration-legal-systems |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Publicly Accessible) |
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