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COVID-19 population management strategy for prisons

This paper assesses the impact of various population management strategies implemented in prisons in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Public Health England have worked closely with HM Prison & Probation Service and NHS England to enhance social distancing, protect the most vulnerable, and increase compartmentalisation in prisons in England. Outbreaks of COVID-19 in prisons affecting staff and prisoners are being seen currently but early emerging data collected by PHE suggests that the ‘explosive outbreaks’ of COVID-19 which were feared at the beginning of the pandemic wave are not being seen. Instead, there is evidence of containment of outbreaks.

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Published 27 April 2020
Last updated 1 May 2020 + show all updates
  1. Following advice from NHS Wales, we have excluded statistics relating to Welsh prisons from the data.

  2. First published.

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