The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Prison Overcrowding in Jamaica

In 2019, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre, one of Jamaica’s two maximum-security centers for men, was operating at 94.5% above its ideal capacity of 850. The extent to which the Jamaican state took steps to facilitate decarceration during this period rema...

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1. VerfasserIn: Leslie, Dacia L. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2025
In: Victims & offenders
Jahr: 2025, Band: 20, Heft: 2, Seiten: 211-254
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