1. Prisons and custodial settings are part of a comprehensive response to COVID-19
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Éamonn O'Moore, Jesse T Young, Carina Ferreira-Borges, Kathryn Snow, Louise Southalan, Daniel Lopez-Acuña, Stuart A. Kinner, [Kinner,SA, Young,JT, Snow,K] Centre for Adolescent Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. [Kinner,SA, Snow,K, and Southalan,L] Justice Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. [Kinner,SA] School of Public and Population Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CB, Canada. [Kinner,SA] Mater Research Institute-UQ, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. [Kinner,SA] Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. [Young,JT] School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia. [Young,JT] National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia. [Snow,K] Centre for International Child Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. [Lopez-Acuña] Andalusian School of Public Health, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. [Ferreira-Borges,K] Division of Noncommunicable Diseases and Promoting Health through the Life-course WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD Office) Moscow, Russian Federation. [O'Moore,E] National Health & Justice Team, Public Health England, Wellington House, London, United Kingdom.
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Comment: Prisons are epicentres for infectious diseases because of the higher background prevalence of infection, the higher levels of risk factors for infection, the unavoidable close contact in often overcrowded, poorly ventilated, and unsanitary facilities, and the poor access to health-care services relative to that in community settings. Infections can be transmitted between prisoners, staff and visitors, between prisons through transfers and staff cross-deployment, and to and from the community. As such, prisons and other custodial settings are an integral part of the public health response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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- 2020