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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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Decarcerating Correctional Facilities during COVID-19: Advancing Health, Equity, and Safety
Consensus Study Report
·2020
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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