MSW students stress need to protect incarcerated individuals in new publication
The large and fluid prison population is an often overlooked component of public health in the United States. A newly published commentary paper in the journal Criminal Justice Review, co-authored by MSW students Shaina Clerget, Kate Kelly, Nai Soto, and Nadi Wisseh, suggests that government authorities need better strategies for containing COVID-19 infections among the incarcerated, for the benefit of vulnerable inmates as well as the community at large.
With an average of 650,000 citizens returning home from prison each year in the United States, and thousands of correctio...