RT Article T1 Approaches to Reducing Risk of COVID-19 Infections in Prisons and Immigration Detention Centers: A Commentary JF Criminal justice review VO 49 IS 1 SP 83 OP 90 A1 Kelly, Kate A1 Soto, Nai A1 Wisseh, Nadi Damond A1 Clerget, Shaina A. A2 Soto, Nai A2 Wisseh, Nadi Damond A2 Clerget, Shaina A. LA English YR 2024 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1880021595 AB Although often left out of public health efforts and policy decisions, prisons, jails, and detention centers are integral to community health. With an average of 650,000 citizens returning home from prison each year in the United States, and thousands of correctional staff members returning home every night, there are millions of touchpoints between outside communities and carceral settings. For this reason, carceral communities should be central to planning and policy making in response to the spread of the COVID-19 illness. As social workers and clinicians, we are urgently concerned that efforts to prevent COVID-19 infections in prisons are underdeveloped and inadequate in the face of a fast-spreading virus. In this commentary, we outline a set of public health, policy, and clinical recommendations based upon the existing literature to mitigate various risks to the well-being of carceral communities. K1 Coronavirus K1 Public Health K1 Immigration K1 Detention K1 Prison DO 10.1177/0734016820957707