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The Committee on Law and Justice will convene an ad hoc committee that will provide advice to policymakers, correctional officials, and public health officials on best practices for mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in correctional facilities through large-scale release and decarceration efforts.
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The conditions and characteristics of correctional facilities - overcrowded with rapid population turnover, often in old and poorly ventilated structures, a spatially concentrated pattern of releases and admissions in low-income communities of color, and a health care system that is siloed from comm...
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Statement of Task: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene an ad hoc committee that will provide advice to policymakers, correctional officials, and public health officials on best practices for mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in correctional facilities through large-scale release and decarceration efforts. The short consensus report will consider the following questions:
• How can correctional facilities apply evidence-based practices to large-scale release and decarceration, while paying attention to equity issues?
• What community supports are needed to ensure successful reentry for released individuals and the community?
The committee will issue a report with findings and recommendations at the end of the study.
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