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The risk of the 'prison-emptying' effect in Italy due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Antonina ArgoGinevra MaltaStefania Zerbo

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2019-20 coronavirus outbreakCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)media_common.quotation_subjectPneumonia ViralPrisonViolenceBetacoronavirusSettore MED/43 - Medicina LegalePandemicmedicineHumansCovid-19 prisonPandemicsmedia_commonInfection Controlbiologybusiness.industryViral EpidemiologySARS-CoV-2PrisonersCOVID-19General Medicinemedicine.diseasebiology.organism_classificationVirologyPneumoniaItalyPrisonsbusinessCoronavirus InfectionsBetacoronavirus

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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

10.1177/0025817220923697https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32410516