Guidance Brief
Selected findings from ECDC and EMCDDA scientific guidance, 2018
Updated guidance. The guidance provides useful information to staff working in prisons, as well as to health and prison authorities, explaining how to prevent and address a potential outbreak of COVID-19. In addition, it aims to protect the health a
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nd well-being of all those who live and work in, and visit, these settings and the general population at large. People deprived of their liberty, and living or working in enclosed environments in close proximity, are likely to be more vulnerable to the COVID-19 disease than the general population. Moreover, correctional facilities may amplify and enhance COVID-19 transmission beyond their walls.
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Briefing note | 16 March 2020
Do no harm, equality, transparency, humanity: values should guide the criminal justice sector’s response to coronavirus
At the time of publishing there were more than 164,000* confirmed cases of COVID- 19, the novel form of Coronavirus, affecting 110 countries wit
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h more than 6,470 deaths. In this briefing we assess the current situation of COVID-19 outbreaks and prevention measures in prisons** and wider impacts of responses to governments on people in criminal justice systems. This briefing note argues for action to be taken now and immediately, given the risk people in prison are exposed to, including prison staff.
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Human Rights, Minimum Standards and Monitoring at the European and International Levels
Euro Surveillance 2014;19(47):pii=20970, p.31-37
Chapter 8, Prison and Health, published
The Open Infectious Diseases Journal, 2010, 4, 33-37
PLOS ONE 10(12): e0144040. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144040
BMC Infectious Diseases 2012, 12:352/1471-2334/12/352
The SPPCHS project worked with the Ministry of Home Affairs to design a peer education program for prisons to provide knowledge, skills, and tools to prevent and respond to tuberculosis (TB) and HIV in prisons. AIDSFree held two training of trainers (TOT) in Dodoma to train 55
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prison officers from 26 prison facilities to train prison staff and inmates on the new peer education program.
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Literature Review on TB Control in Prisons 11/18/2008
International Journal of Infectious Diseases 32 (2015) 111–117
Accessed: 22.04.2020
The outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 virus confronts Prison Services daily with new challenges.
Prison Services are dealing with closed environments and this makes it esp
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ecially difficult to provide for the right care for both, prisoners and staff working in prisons.
Prison Services are eager to hear from their colleagues in other European countries, how they are dealing with this situation, what approaches and measures they took to keep the situation as much as possible under control.
On this page we would like to gather and share all regulations/protocols/approaches European Prison Services or related organisations have drafted or taken in order to deal with the Covid-19 virus.
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Rapport sur les populations clés.
Fist Edition: January, 2012
Kingdom of Cambodia, Nation Religion King