General Prevention
Measures
• Provision of Emergency Response Kits for incidents involving blood or
body substance spills (ICPA, 2020)
• Creation of a crisis team (ARP, 2020)
• Wall-mounted liquid soap dispensers, paper towels and foot-operated
pedal bins to be made available and accessible in key common areas
(toilets, canteens, gyms...) (ARP, 2020; WHO, 2020).
FI; MD; NO; PT
HK; LT20; NSW, AU; SK21;
WA, AU22
• An air purifier with HEPA filter to be strategically located at some high-risk
areas (ICPA: Hong Kong Correctional Services, 2020).
HK
• Prisoner canteen (store) services are suspended (ICPA, 2020).
EE23
• Restrictions imposed on packages sent to prison (ARP, 2020; EUROPRIS, 2020; ICPA,2020)
20
NSW, AU
BE24; EE25 ; GT26
Protection measures against the virus should be stocked in places with easy access for the staff 24/7 (ICPA: Prison Department of Lithuania, 2020).
Provide hand disinfection products for all prison staff as well as for inmates performing the necessary activities within prison (ICPA: Corps of Prison and Court
Guard of the Slovak Republic, 2020).
22
Handwashing material must be available throughout the work site and checked twice per day (ICPA: Department of Corrective Services Western Australia, 2020).
23
Prison staff canteen will provide food in takeaway containers or the canteen is used by each unit’s staff separately and the dining hall is disinfected inbetween
24 Urgent package receival is still to take place (EUROPRIS: Belgian Prison Service, 2020).
25
Packages for inmates are admitted via Postal Service only (ICPA: Estonian Prison Service, 2020).
26
Mandatory disinfection through fumigation. In Juvenile Corrections Centres only hygienic products are allowed (ARP: Sistema Penitenciario Guatemalteco, 2020).
21
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