The risk of the ‘prison-emptying’ effect in Italy due to the Covid-19 pandemic
- Authors: Ginevra Malta, Stefania Zerbo, Antonina Argo
- Publication year: 2020
- Type: Lettera
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/438014
Abstract
People who live and work or are detained inside restricted communities (including prisons) need to be considered as they are at a high risk of becoming infected with Covid-19 during this pandemic.1 InItaly, the spread of Covid-19 has provoked numerous riots within the prisons and local detention centres, and there is a consequent increase in requests for inmates to be released and detained at home