The prison system in Florida is out-of-date and inefficient. Most, if not all, of the institutions lack enough staffing, and the structures are ancient and unmaintained. The food is unhealthy, doesn’t provide proper food, and probably makes a lot of inmates ill. According to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM), an overall 4-year drop in life expectancy was caused by a significant rise in COVID-19 mortality among the state of Florida’s jail population. The Florida State Department of Corrections and other prison systems should work to enhance vaccination uptake, reduce prison populations, and commit to COVID-19 data transparency in light of the findings and the threat of COVID-19 outbreaks. The worst of the worst are painted as those who are incarcerated in the media, by politicians, and in films. As though we live in a flawless world, they give the uncommon example of a person who was incarcerated and then committed an offense again. The general population therefore starts to believe that everyone who is incarcerated just needs the barest minimum of care, and prisoners are seen as less than human. People have no concept what goes on inside jails unless they are incarcerated themselves or have a loved one who is. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the prison staff and the higher-ups just did not care about the safety of the inmates and the covid outbreaks inside the prisons. We don’t have to ignore those who are behind bars or provide them subpar care. They are still people.
Law violations Related to COVID-19 Management
In connection with COVID-19, several prisons are facing serious class action lawsuits over how they handled the coronavirus outbreak inside of their facilities and how they violated inmates’ rights to be free from cruel and unusual punishment by subjecting them to the COVID-19 virus, which led to the deaths of several inmates.
These claims claim that departments failed to adopt fundamental safety measures not allowing prisoners to securely socially remove themselves from one another as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) specifically for correctional facilities. The AMU proposal put forth by Florida’s Department of Corrections is clearly intended to punish an inmate’s “negative behavior,” and it is arguably not in accordance with the recommendations made by the CDC for inmates to manage COVID-19 in correctional facilities, as prisoners across the nation claim in their legal actions. Before being finalized, the rule will allegedly now go through notice and comment rulemaking. Although the increased risk of COVID-19 infection and mortality in prisons is well known, but with the 2021 research, we got an idea how COVID-19 affects all-cause mortality in populations imprisoned.
This study compared mortality rates and life expectancy to assess the effect COVID-19 had on all- cause mortality and examined mortality records from the population of the Florida State Department of Corrections prison system.
An overall 4-year drop in life expectancy was caused by a significant rise in COVID-19 mortality among the state of Florida’s jail population. The Florida State Departmentof Corrections and other prison systems should work to enhance vaccination uptake, reduce prison populations, and commit to COVID-19 data transparency in light of the findings and the threat of COVID-19 outbreaks.
The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) began offering all prisoners started receiving COVID-19 vaccinations in April 2021. If they are qualified based on vaccine recommendations, all prisoners are given the chance to participate. An inmate may ask for an appointment to be vaccinated if they previously denied the vaccination and now change their mind.
All newly committed offenders are tested by FDC COVID upon arrival, and they are given the option to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
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