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On March 22, 23 prisoners were killed and 83 injured during a prison riot in La Modelo in Bogota, which erupted over fears over the spreading of COVID-19 through prison walls. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Prisoners across the country have been protesting against the poor health services ever since the outbreak of COVID-19.
Karachi, one of "Asia's most crime-ridden cities", saw an entire week in March go by without any car thefts. [13] In New York City, grand larceny declined by over 50% in April compared to the same period last year; however, the city saw a rise in commercial burglaries despite the overall fall of ~29% in major crimes . [ 14 ]
At peak, as many as 25,000 prisoners across the United States tested positive for COVID-19 in a single week. [60] By June 2021 more than 500,000 prisoners had tested positive for COVID-19; [60] and as of December 2021, about 34 of every 100 people in US prisons had been infected with COVID-19, almost 4-times the rate of the national population.
Some, like Texas, collect information from counties but not from municipalities. Others, like Louisiana, only track deaths of inmates in state custody — a tiny fraction of the jail population. (Jails are short-term holding facilities in which many inmates have not been convicted; our study does not include deaths in prison.)
Infectious diseases within American correctional settings are a concern within the public health sector. The corrections population is susceptible to infectious diseases through exposure to blood and other bodily fluids, drug injection, poor health care, prison overcrowding, demographics, security issues, lack of community support for rehabilitation programs, and high-risk behaviors. [1]
Prison advocates are calling attention to a scathing report from the Justice Department that details how mismanagement at federal prisons contributed to deaths of hundreds of inmates within the ...
Sarah "Cindy" White, the longest serving female prisoner in Indiana is interviewed about sexual abuse she claims led to her crime, at the Indiana Women's Prison on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, in ...
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requested health data from 54 state and territorial health department jurisdictions. 32 (86%) of 37 jurisdictions that responded reported at least one confirmed COVID-19 case among inmates or staff members. As of April 21 ...