Adopted measures Prison Staff • Staff (custodial and health-care workers) to be educated about standard precautions such as personal hygiene, respiratory etiquette, basic IPC measures, basic disease knowledge, including pathogen, transmission route, sigs and clinical disease progression, as well as how to deal with a person suspected of having COVID-19 as safely as possible to prevent the infection from spreading and cleaning and disinfection prevention measures (ARP, 2020; WHO, 2020). (work organisation, screening, etc) COVID-19 in prisons New challenges put forward by COVID-19 impose the adaptation and readjustment of the staff’s organisational structure, in order to respond to the pandemic. • Staff is not allowed to travel abroad (ICPA, 2020; EUROPRIS, 2020) • Control and assessment of the staff by Doctors located in Correctional / Detention Center (ICPA,2020). • Every day the staff must sign a declaration saying that they don't have any symptom, that they haven't been next to an ill person and that they haven't been abroad in the last 14 days (ICPA, 2020; ICPA, 2020). 37 17 Only if strictly necessary (ICPA: Swedish Prison and Probation Service (SPPS), 2020). Sheets with information for healthcare professionals and for employees working in the reception/entry section have been developed ( ICPA: Netherlands Custodial Institutions Agency, 2020). 38 Countries AR, BR, BG; CO; ES; FI; HK; LT; MD; NSW, AU; PK; PY; SG; SK; TR; Vic, AU FI; IL; NO; SE37; SG XK PT; IL; N38