Oladeru Oluwadamilola T, Tran Nguyen-Toan, Al-Rousan Tala, Williams Brie, Zaller Nickolas
Harvard Radiation Oncology Program, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
The Australian Centre for Public and Population Health Research, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia.
Health Justice. 2020 Jul 2;8(1):17. doi: 10.1186/s40352-020-00119-1.
This editorial describes why surge planning in the community must account for potential infection outbreaks in jails and prisons, and why incarcerated people and those in contact with them, including over 450,000 correctional officers and thousands of healthcare staff working in prisons, are at significant risk of COVID-19 exposure. We then explain how our nation's jails and prisons will continue to serve as breeding grounds for devastating COVID-19 outcomes and offer specific guidance and a call to action for the immediate development of correctional healthcare strategies designed to protect the health and safety of patients and correctional and healthcare staff and the communities in which they are situated. Correctional officers and correctional healthcare professionals need the nation's reassurance during this dire time that they will not be abandoned and further stigmatized for responding to the needs of incarcerated people. Our collective health depends on it.
这篇社论阐述了为何社区的激增规划必须考虑到监狱中可能爆发的感染疫情，以及为何被监禁者以及与他们有接触的人，包括超过45万名惩教人员和数千名在监狱工作的医护人员，面临着感染新冠病毒的重大风险。接着，我们解释了美国的监狱将如何继续成为新冠疫情灾难性后果的滋生地，并提供了具体指导，呼吁立即制定惩教医疗策略，以保护患者、惩教人员和医护人员及其所在社区的健康与安全。在这个严峻时刻，惩教人员和惩教医疗专业人员需要国家的保证，即他们不会因响应被监禁者的需求而被抛弃和进一步污名化。我们的共同健康取决于此。
