# Key Insights: COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention Facilities
> **Other** by Pandemic Response Accountability Committee · 2021-05-12
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## Report
- **Title:** Key Insights: COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention Facilities
- **Submitting OIG:** Pandemic Response Accountability Committee
- **Component agency:** Multiple Agencies
- **Type:** Other
- **Publication date:** 2021-05-12

## Summary

Correctional and detention facilities present unique challenges in preventing and controlling the spread of COVID-19. When compared to the general population, a disproportionate number of COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths occur in jails, prisons, and detention facilities across the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has noted that the confined nature of correctional and detention facilities, combined with their congregate environments, heightens the potential for COVID-19 to spread once introduced into a facility.

## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/other/key-insights-covid-19-correctional-and-detention-facilities)
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