Case Studies
Dealing With Coronavirus Within The British Penal System
What are the direct concerns with covid-19 for british prisons?
In the very early days there were very serious concerns about huge outbreaks in UK prisons. Public Health England predicated that there could be as many as 77,800 cases and 2,700 deaths from a prison population of 81,000. Prisons in the UK then implemented their own lockdowns effectively confining prisoners to their cells for 23 hours a day.
Covid-19 has caused many issues affecting the prison service such as access to prope...