COVID-19 Decarceration: The Detention Centres Nobody is Talking About
COVID-19 Decarceration: The Detention Centres Nobody is Talking About
With physical distancing in prisons nearly impossible, prisons have rightly become a central topic of conversation. Overcrowded and lacking in basic hygiene and sanitation, they are inadequate to protect the health of prisoners and staff, and are thus reservoirs for the spread of communicable diseases like COVID-19. Approaches to other detention settings, such as immigration or juvenile detention centres, are also being scrutinised.
But there is one detention setting that has been virtually absent from media coverage and policy discussion, despite imposing conditions of detention that are, in some cases, even worse than prison – drug detention and rehabilitation centres. (Talking Drugs, UK, 27.04.2020)
https://www.talkingdrugs.org/covid-19-coronavirus-decarceration-drugs-the-detention-centres-nobody-is-talking-about