Rethinking standards on prison cell size in a (post)pandemic world: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the current international, regional and national standards on prison cell spatial density and the evidence for the association between COVID-19 transmission and prison crowding measures to provide recommendations on prison cell spatial density standards for a (post) pandemic world.

Design

Scoping review.

Data sources

PubMed, ProQuest, Informit, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Cochrane, Web of Science, Scopus, EMBASE, Google Scholar and Google were searched up to November 2021.

Eligibility criteria

Guidelines were included provided they described standards of prison accommodation with respect to prison cells. Studies were included provided they examined an association between COVID-19 cases and a crowding measure.

Data extraction and synthes

SUBMITTER: Dahiya S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10083520 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature