COVID-19 in prisons: What needs to be done in Ontario
27 juillet 2020 • Par Claudia Medina, Eveline Allen, Chris McNab and Nicole AlexanderImmediately after Ontario declared the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as being a public health emergency in mid-March 2020, all visits from family and friends and programming were suspended in prisons in the province.
With little information from the Ministry of the Solicitor General regarding their efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, the Prisoners’ HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN) was flooded with phone calls from prisoners concerned about their health and the well-being of their family and friends.