Recommendations for urgent and systemic reform to prevent and address human rights violations of people in detention and serving sentences in the community, in the context of COVID-19

We publish this new briefing, Coronavirus: Preventing harm and human rights violations in criminal justice systems, to ensure that people who too often remain invisible to society at the hands of the state, and at risk of infection or in need of medical care, are not forgotten. We reaffirm the duty of care that states have for people in detention, and we document the responsibility of states to provide healthcare and take proactive measures to prevent harm of people deprived of liberty.