Exam 20: Covid-19 and Prisons: a Perfect Storm of Illness, Isolation, and Inequality

What was the reasoning behind Canadian human rights groups and a current federal prisoner filing a legal challenge against Correctional Service Canada (CSC)? What were the consequences and lessons learned from this experience and the COVID-19 pandemic as a whole?

What are the 'Nelson Mandela Rules'? How do they protect prisoners? Explain one of these rules.

Prisoners live with limited mobility, in cramped spaces, and with poor access to healthcare and hygiene.

When people are already deprived of their liberty, seclusion and lockdown have no effects on their rights or accessibility to healthcare.

What is the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners?

When was the first Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders held?

What is meant by an 'epidemiological pump'? How are prisons and correctional facilities at higher risk of being 'epidemiological pumps'?

Which of the following terms can be described as 'systematic inequalities in health that are deemed unfair or unjust, that is often seen as unnecessary and avoidable'?

Prisoners have divisions of space and don't live in proximity to others in facilities, even if their facilities are prone to overcrowding.

What is not an example of efforts that must continue to implement basic public health prevention strategies?

What social inequities have come to light with the appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic? How were prisons affected by it and what can be done to prevent disease outbreaks in prisons?

Prisons in Canada have been effective in providing masks and hand sanitizer, as well as conducting timely and accurate testing.

Which of the following increases the infection risk for prison staff?

The ideal of the estimated 11 million prisoners worldwide having the same right to health as anyone else is almost a reality given worldwide efforts.

In Hungary and Latvia, new detainees were confined for a period of time to avoid spreading the virus.

Because there is a low chance of infection in jails, stopping the virus from spreading is of little concern to prison employees and the broader public.

What is celebrated on July 18^th?

What is referred to by the expression 'epidemiologic pumps"?

The Nelson Mandela Rules promote solitary confinement and emphasize the importance of isolation to prevent the spread of disease.

There is the possibility of teleworking for many prison staff, and this means that most of them have fewer chances of being exposed to the virus and getting infected.