Prisons and custodial settings are part of a comprehensive response to COVID-19

Kinner, Stuart A; Young, Jesse T; Snow, Kathryn; Southalan, Louise; López-Acuña, Daniel; Ferreira‐Borges, Carina; O’Moore, Éamonn

doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(20)30058-x

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“…Yet COVID-19 travel restrictions may also facilitate stigma and xenophobia by reproducing the social construction of illness as a foreign invasion, in turn reinforcing social hierarchies and power inequities [1,10] -at times through authoritarian means [11]. Enforcement of travel bans, movement restrictions, and quarantines may disproportionately affect already stigmatized persons, including homeless persons [17], persons who are incarcerated [18], migrants and refugees [19], undocumented immigrants [20], and racial minorities [8]. There are global media reports of arrests for COVID-19 transmission [21][22][23][24][25].…”

Section: Tensions Between Stigma Mitigation and Covid-19 Public Healtmentioning

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How Do We Balance Tensions Between COVID-19 Public Health Responses and Stigma Mitigation? Learning from HIV Research

2020

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We are not being invaded. The body is not a battlefield. The ill are neither unavoidable casualties nor the enemy. We-medicine, society-are not authorized to fight back by any means whatever. -Sontag (1 p. 180) Sontag's quotation above from 'AIDS and its metaphors' [1] reminds us to expose, and disengage from, constructions of illness that propagate fear. We are called to address the fear of COVID-19 by correcting misinformation [2,3]. While misinformation is indeed a driver of fear and stigma, other underlying facilitators produce stigma [4,5] and need to be considered in stigma mitigation. HIV research and an understanding of the historical construction of illness can be leveraged to mitigate COVID-19 stigma. COVID-19 public health responses-essential for prevention and containment [6,7]-also have the potential to exacerbate stigma [8]. We outline four tensions between COVID-19 containment and stigma mitigation, and offer possible ways forward.

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Section: Tensions Between Stigma Mitigation and Covid-19 Public Healtmentioning

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How Do We Balance Tensions Between COVID-19 Public Health Responses and Stigma Mitigation? Learning from HIV Research

2020

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“…Social distancing is the most effective strategy to decrease COVID-19 transmission (Chen et al, 2020). However, it is nearly impossible to social distance in prisons, 1 since they are epicenters of infectious diseases (Kinner et al, 2020). Incarcerated people are more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection (World Health Organization, 2020) due to their disproportionately high physical and behavioral health needs, limited access to quality health care, and environmental design, which promotes rapid disease transmission (Hammett et al, 1998).…”

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Social Distancing and Incarceration: Policy and Management Strategies to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission and Promote Health Equity Through Decarceration

Henry

2020

Health Educ Behav

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Incarcerated people are at disproportionately high risk of contracting COVID-19. Prisons are epicenters for COVID-19 transmission, including to the community. High rates of preexisting health conditions, limited access to quality health care, and inability to social distance make it impossible to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in prisons. Due to a history of compounded social determinants, incarcerated populations are disproportionately composed of people of color and people with stigmatized behavioral health disorders. Rapid decarceration is needed to promote health equity. Historical mass decarceration events demonstrate feasibility to rapidly release large groups of people while maintaining public safety. Iran and Ireland have released substantial portions of their prison populations by transitioning people to home confinement. In the United States and Uganda, some jurisdictions have reduced new incarcerations through policies that decrease arrests. These policies must be globally expanded to contain the epidemic, and its potential health consequences, while addressing health equity.

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“…This concerns persons with low health literacy, [40] international migrant workers [41] with estimated global number as 150 million, international students, [42] persons in assisted living and nursing homes, persons with intellectual or sensorial disabilities, [43] refugees, [44][45] homeless people, [46] prisoners. [47] These groups are disempowered in face of the epidemic and urge for a special need to bilateral communication in order to sociologically monitor their perception of general preventive actions, and to eventually readjust these actions to particular social conditions.…”

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Communication on COVID-19 to community – measures to prevent a second wave of epidemic

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Bikbov²

2020

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The manuscript highlights available data on gap in public awareness about recent clinical and scientific facts about COVID-19, insufficient community knowledge about symptoms and preventive measures during COVID-19 and previous MERS-CoV epidemic, and lack of monitoring the community perception and adherence to preventive measures. We also summarize literature evidence about reluctance to change social behavior and disregard recommendations for social distancing among persons who percept to having low risk of infection or complications, and briefly describe destructive psychological response and misleading communications.Our analysis could be translated into important policy changes in two directions:(1)to communicate recent scientific discoveries about COVID-19 pathophysiology to better prepare public opinion to longer period of extraordinary measures;(2)to implement sociological feedback on knowledge, attitudes and practices among general public and some vulnerable social groups.

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Prisons and custodial settings are part of a comprehensive response to COVID-19

Cited by 298 publications

References 12 publications

How Do We Balance Tensions Between COVID-19 Public Health Responses and Stigma Mitigation? Learning from HIV Research

How Do We Balance Tensions Between COVID-19 Public Health Responses and Stigma Mitigation? Learning from HIV Research

Social Distancing and Incarceration: Policy and Management Strategies to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission and Promote Health Equity Through Decarceration

Communication on COVID-19 to community – measures to prevent a second wave of epidemic

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