Correctional Services During and Beyond COVID-19: An RSC Policy Briefing
Author: Rosemary Ricciardelli.; Sandra Bucerius.; Justin Tetrault.; Ben Crewe.; David Pyrooz.
Source: Volume 30, Number 03, Spring 2021 , pp.5-20(16)
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Abstract:
Correctional services, both institutional and within the community, have been significantly affected by COVID-19. This Royal Society of Canada policy brief focuses on the current situation and examines the new challenges COVID-19 has introduced into correctional practice while also exacerbating and illuminating existing strains on the correctional system. Because COVID-19 provides opportunities to re-think various aspects of criminal justice practice, this policy brief has two goals: to make recommendations that are directly aimed at how correctional systems can manage COVID-19, and to address the nature and structure of the correctional systems that should be continued after the pandemic.Keywords: Correctional services, COVID-19 challenges, decarceration, Indigenous peoples and community corrections, workers and residents in correctional institutions
Affiliations:
1: Memorial University of Newfoundland; 2: University of Alberta; 3: Western University; 4: University of Colorado Boulder; 5: University of Colorado Boulder.