New Intake
Screening
Adopted measures
Countries
• Convicts and detainees suspected of Coronavirus not be sent to prisons before
observation, evaluation and treatment at the hospital (ICPA, 2020).
TR
• New arrivals and returnees from parole are kept in isolation for 14 days (EUROPRIS,
2020; ICPA, 2020)
• Screening at point of entry to prison (collection of information on any history of fever, cough and/or
shortness of breath or other respiratory tract symptoms, measurement of fever, patients’ travel history and possible
contact with confirmed in the last 14 days) (ARP, 2020 ; WHO, 2020).
COVID-19 in prisons
Ensuring the
protection detainees’ health
and wellbeing is
fundamentally dependent on
a holistic approach to new
intakes to support the
continued safe operation of
prisons.
BG; CZ; EE; ES; GH93; IT;
PK; SG 94;; SK; TR; Vic,
AU95
PT; AR; BE 96; BR; HK;
IT97; SG; SK98; TR; Vic,
AU; WA, AU
• Particular attention to be paid to persons with contagious diseases (WHO,2020).
CR99;NO100 ;PY101
• Establishing a procedure for immediate isolation of suspected cases (WHO, 2020).
PT; BE; CZ; NO; Vic,
AU
• Suspension of new arrivals (ARP, 2020).
• A list of all new inmates as well as those returning to prison to be sent daily to
the prison’s medical department, indicating their body temperature (EUROPRIS,
DK; ES; FI102; LV103; ND,
USA104; NL105; NO106; SE
BE
2020).
• It is preferable that only well inmates from non-quarantined units are
transferred between custodial facilities as far as possible (ICPA, 2020).
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Vic, AU
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