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Covid-19 Pandemic And Challenges Of Public Health Administration & Criminal Justice System
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, M.Z.M. NOMANI, NASIR AHMAD NUSRATI, MOHAMMAD MOHTAJ
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The global outbreak of the COVID-19 has a ripple effect on community transmission by prisoners in jails, detainees in detention homes and trial and release in society. The National Crime Record Bureau and the Prison Statistics India, 2020 documented overcrowding and occupancy, resulting in high risk of infection. The health and human rights envisage the highest attainable standard of health among prisoners and detainees. The World Health Organization has also issued Guidance on COVID-19 for Prisons and Detention, 2020 institutionalizing the strategic mechanism to deal with the COVID-19 challenges in prisons and detention homes. The guidance protects the health of inmates and convicts living in enclosed environments, considering them prone to the COVID-19 infection and spread among the population. The United Nations Principles of the Protection of Prisoners, 1982 and Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners, 1990 along with the Moscow Declaration on Prisons and Health, 2003 and Nelson Mandela Rules, 2015 provide for the health administration & criminal justice system (CJS). The WHO Interim Guidance on Preparedness, Prevention and Control of COVID-19 In Prisons and Other Places of Detention, 2020 is categorical in preventive and remedial measures for the prisons and detention homes in the contagion of COVID-19. The paper argues for the legal policy for the health care in jails and detention homes in the light of the judgment of High Courts and Supreme Court during the lockdown in India.
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COVID-19, Health Care, Prisoners, Detention Homes, Human Rights, WHO Guideline, De-carceration.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP3.102
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