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  • Back to Normal: Considerations for Returning Jails to Pre-COVID-19 Operations

    This document was written to serve as suggestions for when jail leaders begin the process of returning jail operations “back to normal”.
  • Turning to telemedicine for prisoners' mental health treatment

    Indeed, it's not just prisoners being treated for mental illness who feel a stigma—it's also their providers.

  • Jails: Inadvertent Health Care Providers

    During 2015, the latest year for which data are available, there were 10.9 million admissions to these correctional facilities, which hold individu