This information has been directly sourced from an article published on The Crime Report and is available to read here.

The threat of Covid-19 in prisons is concerning, there are too many people too close together with minimal, basic sanitary and medical supplies. 

Not only do detainees travel in and out of prisons quite frequently, but so do guards and administrators, which could enable Covid-19 to be brought into the prisons as well as out.

"The people we need to repair the COVID-19 disaster will come from both criminal justice and public health"

For more information regarding Covid-19 and prisons, read the full article here.