TY - JOUR
T1 - Responding to COVID-19 in Latin American Prisons
T2 - The Cases of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico
AU - Fondevila, Gustavo
AU - Marmolejo, Lina
AU - Barberi, Daniela
AU - Bergman, Marcelo
AU - Espinoza, Olga
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2020/10/26
Y1 - 2020/10/26
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze how prison systems in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico respond to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). It explores the challenges these institutions face, the actions taken, the beneficiaries from such measures, and their immediate effect. We argue that governments and prison authorities struggle to put in place comprehensive measures to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19 within these institutions and that more concrete and swift actions are needed to address the magnitude and the consequences of the pandemic. This paper uses both primary and secondary data to describe the current prison situation and analyze institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in these countries.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze how prison systems in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico respond to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). It explores the challenges these institutions face, the actions taken, the beneficiaries from such measures, and their immediate effect. We argue that governments and prison authorities struggle to put in place comprehensive measures to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19 within these institutions and that more concrete and swift actions are needed to address the magnitude and the consequences of the pandemic. This paper uses both primary and secondary data to describe the current prison situation and analyze institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in these countries.
KW - Alternatives to incarceration
KW - COVID-19
KW - Early release mechanisms
KW - Latin America
KW - Pandemic
KW - Prison reform
KW - Prisons
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094099194&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15564886.2020.1827110
DO - 10.1080/15564886.2020.1827110
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85094099194
SN - 1556-4886
VL - 15
SP - 1062
EP - 1085
JO - Victims and Offenders
JF - Victims and Offenders
IS - 7-8
ER -