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- Title
Strategies Mitigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Incarcerated Populations.
- Authors
Robinson, Lauren K.; Heyman-Kantor, Reuben; Angelotta, Cara
- Abstract
The article focuses on methods by which the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic can be mitigated among incarcerated populations. It states inmates are suffering from increased levels of posttraumic stress syndrome symptoms, anxiety, distress, and depression. It comments mental illness rates in incarcerated populations is greater than the general public. It mentions how the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment provision on cruel and unusual punishment requires prisons to provide basic medical care.
- Subjects
SUICIDE risk factors; PREVENTION of infectious disease transmission; CORRECTIONAL institutions; EPIDEMICS; MENTAL health; MENTAL illness; PRISON psychology; PUBLIC health; QUARANTINE; RIOTS; WELL-being; COVID-19; STAY-at-home orders
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2020, Vol 110, Issue 8, p1135
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2020.305754