... from custody. The purpose of this paper is to describe the primary changes and challenges to mental health and substance use service provision early in the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada, with a specific focus on people released from custody and the service providers who supported them during...

...Thomas D. Akoensi Purpose The literature on prison officers highlights the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on prison staff. However, there is limited knowledge about how the pandemic affected prison officers’ mental health in the global south. To fill this void, this study aims...

...Lin Guo; Padmanabhan Badrinath; Jessica Mookherjee; Anjan Ghosh; Edyta McCallum; Nirosha Dissanayake; Abraham George Purpose During the COVID-19 pandemic, prisons faced a unique challenge of preventing and managing outbreaks with minimal adverse impact. This study aims to describe the epidemiology...

...SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi; Soudabeh Yarmohammadi; Farid Farahani Rad; Muhammad Ali Rasheed; Mohammad Javaherian; Amir Masoud Afsahi; Haleh Siami; AmirBehzad Bagheri; Ali Zand; Omid Dadras; Esmaeil Mehraeen Purpose COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Considering...

...Rafael Clua-García; Lidia Puig Garcia; Sonia Mellado; Maite Serrats; Xenia Rue Queralt; Mireia Llopart; Adrian Jacas; Dario Lopez Gallegos; Elena Yela Purpose This study aims to learn about the experiences of inmates who experienced long periods of isolation due to a COVID-19 outbreak...

...Austin Zygmunt; Kahiye Warsame; Richard G. Mather; Lori McKinnon; Anne Philipneri; Stone Li; Sandya Menon Purpose The physical environment of correctional facilities promote infectious disease transmission and outbreaks. The purpose of this study is to compare the COVID-19 burden between...

... increasingly salient at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. People in prison experience poorer health outcomes compared to the general population, making timely access to adequate health services in prison critical for their health and wellbeing. This study aims to identify the extent of the literature...

...Mathilde Carøe Munkholm Purpose This paper aims to report findings about how prisoners experience and cope with COVID-19 restrictions, which can contribute to an understanding of how pandemic responses, and specifically the COVID-19 response, affect prisoners. Design/methodology/approach Data...

...Jennifer E. James; Leslie Riddle; Giselle Perez-Aguilar Purpose This study aims to describe the COVID-19 risk mitigation strategies implemented in California prisons and the impact of these policies on the mental health of incarcerated women. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted...

...Emily Dauria; Angelo Clemenzi-Allen; Kathryn Nowotny; Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein; Brie Williams; Alysse Wurcel Purpose Vaccinating adults who are involved with the carceral system, particularly those aged 55 or older, is crucial to containing the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA, particularly...

... to safe and readily available menstrual health products (MHP). The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted on the MHM gains made in various development sectors in the global North and South, through its amplification of vulnerability for already at-risk populations. This is especially significant...

... prevalence rate of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and overcrowding is associated with increased incidence rates of COVID-19 (Leibowitz et al., 2021 ; Duque et al., 2022 ; Kennedy et al., 2020 ; Kronfli et al., 2022 ; Silva et al...

... with these medical conditions and note the engagement of the patient in discussions about advance care planning. See Appendix 1 and 2 for sample letters to guide requests including during COVID-19. Samples were developed by a prison culture change initiative, Amend, at the University of California San Francisco...

...Jennifer E. James; Meghan Foe; Riya Desai; Apoorva Rangan; Mary Price Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a historical overview of compassionate release policies in the USA and describe how these policies have been used during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors then describe how...

...Ada Kwan; Rachel Sklar; Drew B. Cameron; Robert C. Schell; Stefano M. Bertozzi; Sandra I. McCoy; Brie Williams; David A. Sears Purpose This study aims to characterize the June 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin California State Prison and to describe what made San Quentin so vulnerable...

...Marie Claire Van Hout; Charlotte Bigland; Triestino Mariniello Purpose The first prison system case in Zimbabwe was notified in July 2020 shortly after State declaration of disaster. A legal-realist assessment was conducted of the Zimbabwean correctional system response to COVID-19 during state...

...Marie Claire Van Hout; Victor Mhango; Ruth Kaima; Charlotte Bigland; Triestino Mariniello Purpose The first case of COVID-19 in the Malawi prison system was reported in July 2020. Human rights organisations raised concerns about the possibility of significant COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths...

... serological assay during a COVID-19 outbreak in a prison complex housing over 13,000 prisoners in Brasília. Design/methodology/approach The authors obtained a randomized, stratified representative sample of each prison unit and conducted a repeated serosurvey among prisoners between June and July 2020...

...Vincent Jumbe; Victor Mhango; Adamson Muula; Ruth Kaima; Luntha Rosemary Chimbwete; Apatsa Mangwana; Benjamin Msutu; Lisa Tembo; Charlotte Bigland; Stephanie Kewley; Marie Claire Van Hout Purpose Prisons in the sub-Saharan African region face unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic...

...Rosemary Mhlanga-Gunda; Simbarashe Rusakaniko; Anne Nyararai Chinyuku; Valentine Farai Pswarayi; Charmaine Sabrina Robinson; Stephanie Kewley; Marie Claire Van Hout Purpose Prisons in Africa face unprecedented challenges during Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In July 2020, the first prison...