Prison Staff
(work organisation,
screening, etc)
• Possibility to work from home (ARP, 2020).
• Enlistment of new staff members or changes in the roles of those already
employed may take place in emergency cases (ICPA, 2020; ICPA, 2020).
• Early conclusion of the training basic courses which the newly recruited staff
is attending (EUROPRIS, 2020).
• Suspension of recruitment and transfer of staff and all qualification
upgrading (ICPA, 2020).
• Professionals involved in triage activities and who accompany inmates in
isolation must avoid circulating in wings with no suspects or confirmed
cases (ICPA, 2020).
• Suspension of holiday and licence requests by prison staff (ICPA, 2020; EUROPRIS, 2020).
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PT; CZ49; DK50; EE51; ES;
FI52;
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GT ; NSW, AU 54 ; SE;
UY
CO; ND, USA
IT; LV
LT55
BR; Vic, AU
PT; BR; NO
The Headquarters uses home office for most of its employees (ICPA: The Czech Prison Service, 2020).
To the extent possible, non-critical workers (e.g. in administration) are working from home (EUROPRIS: Department of Prisons and Probation of Denmark,
2020).
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All pregnant prison officers and workers, with no exceptions, must stay home immediately and do distance work (ICPA: Estonian Prison Service, 2020).
52All staff members must work from home if it is possible. This concerns mainly administrative staff (EUROPRIS: Criminal Sanctions Agency Finland, 2020).
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Caring and education personnel can work from home and provide their services through technological alternatives (ARP: Sistema Penitenciario
Guatemalteco, 2020).
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If working from home is not feasible, paid leave will apply (ICPA: Corrective Services New South Wales, 2020).
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Stop physical tests for candidates planned to admit into service (EUROPRIS: Latvian Prison Administration, 2020).
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