Report outlines recommendations for decarceration in correctional facilities
(World News Science)

A report released Oct. 19 provided recommendations for managing the COVID-19 pandemic in prisons and jails, which have become hotspots for the spread of COVID-19. The report, titled “Decarcerating Correctional Facilities During COVID-19: Advancing Health, Equity and Safety,” was put together by a panel of criminal justice and public health experts assembled by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and which included University. Correctional facilities “have posed a threat to public safety. Good health and safety in the pandemic era will require reducing incarceration and supporting the communities whose incarceration rates are the highest,” Jody Rich,...