Strategies Mitigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Incarcerated Populations.

The article focuses on methods by which the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic can be mitigated among incarcerated populations. It states inmates are suffering from increased levels of posttraumic stress syndrome symptoms, anxiety, distress, and depression. It comments mental illness rates in incarcerated populations is greater than the general public. It mentions how the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment provision on cruel and unusual punishment requires prisons to provide basic medical care.