1. Special Topics
  2. Coronavirus - 2020

Coronavirus - 2020

The world changed in 2020 and everyone was forced to react to an unprecedented global health crisis. Correctional institutions were not immune to this pandemic. This collection of resources highlights many of the developing insights throughout the first year of the crisis and how corrections facilities and agencies were reacting to the problems they faced.

For more on this topic, please see our Coronavirus resources https://nicic.gov/coronavirus

How to Protect Essential Workers During COVID-19

Even with COVID-19 requiring social distancing for the weeks or months to come, the United States still requires an enormous class of workers to keep essential services online. The Department of Homeland Security uses a sweeping definition of such essential industries, which collectively employed anywhere from 49 to 62 million workers prior to the COVID-19 outbreak according to our highest estimates. Many of these essential industries will see continued demand for their products and services, the inverse of other industries that cannot operate during a period of social distancing.

Coronavirus
Domestic
Citations: 
https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-to-protect-essential-workers-during-covid…

COVID-19 Criminal Justice Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic

The coronavirus, or COVID-19, has been declared by the World Health Organization to be a global pandemic. As the number of people infected in the United States grows exponentially, we must focus on prevention and containment in the criminal and immigration legal systems. Vera and Community Oriented Correctional Health Services have created a series of fact sheets to guide actors in these systems, who have a unique and critical role to play.

Coronavirus
Correctional
Citations: 
https://www.vera.org/publications/coronavirus-guidance-for-criminal-and-immigrat…

COVID-19 and Pretrial Practices: A Judicial Roundtable

The Judicial Roundtables, convened on June 16 and July 9, 2020, explored how court operations have changed in the participating jurisdictions as a result of COVID-19, the impact of those changes thus far, and the potential long-term impacts of these short-term changes.

Coronavirus
Correctional
Citations: 
https://cdn.filestackcontent.com/security=policy:eyJleHBpcnkiOjQwODAxNDY0MDAsImN…

Legend:

Green Items
Items that are green are part of the Correctional Perspective. They generally fit into the scope of only applying to the U.S. Correctional Industry or down to an individual facility level.
Grey Items
Items that are grey are part of the Domestic Perspective. They generally fit into the scope of applying to the U.S. national perspective and may encompass societal components that go beyond just the Correctional Industry.
Blue Items
Items that are blue are part of the Global Perspective. They generally fit into the scope of applying to multiple countries around the globe.
White Items
Any all-white items you see are a combination of two or more perspectives and may apply to both.