{"id":5934,"date":"2020-04-14T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:16:29","slug":"the-epidemiological-implications-of-incarceration-dynamics-in-jails-for-community-corrections-officer-and-incarcerated-population-risks-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/14\/the-epidemiological-implications-of-incarceration-dynamics-in-jails-for-community-corrections-officer-and-incarcerated-population-risks-from-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epidemiological Implications of Incarceration Dynamics in Jails for Community, Corrections Officer, and Incarcerated Population Risks from COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors present a mathematical model exploring the epidemiological consequences of maintaining standard jail operations during the COVID-19 pandemic in contrast with proposed interventions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They conclude that operating in a business as usual way will result in significant and rapid loss of life, both among inmates and correction officers, and recommend large scale reductions in arrest and speeding of releases in order to save lives.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lofgren et al. (April 14, 2020). The Epidemiological Implications of Incarceration Dynamics in Jails for Community, Corrections Officer, and Incarcerated Population Risks from COVID-19. Pre-print downloaded Apr 14 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.08.20058842\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.08.20058842<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors present a mathematical model exploring the epidemiological consequences of maintaining standard jail operations during the COVID-19 pandemic in contrast with proposed interventions.\u00a0 They conclude that operating in a business as usual way will result in significant and rapid loss of life, both among inmates and correction officers, and recommend large scale reductions in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/14\/the-epidemiological-implications-of-incarceration-dynamics-in-jails-for-community-corrections-officer-and-incarcerated-population-risks-from-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5935,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions\/5935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}