Prisons and Detention Facilities Preparedness in Indonesia for Preventing and Control of Covid-19

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210506.021How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Preparedness, Prisons, Preventing, Control, Covid-19, Indonesia

Abstract

The outbreak of a pandemic or the massive spread of Corona Virus Disease throughout the world and Indonesia since the end of 2019 has been concern to occur in prison and detention centers. Correctional Institution (prisons) and State Detention Center are institutions considered to be very vulnerable to the spread of Covid-19. Prison overcrowding add to the high risk of rapid and massive infection. Necessary measures and policies can minimize the risk of Covid-19 rapid spreading. Not only to the inmates, custody, and child prisoners, Covid-19 is also brings risks for every correctional officer. This study aims to explore the readiness of Prisons and Detention Centers in addressing the spread of Covid-19 on the Correctional Office and the clerk. It also attempts to know the implementation of the assessment and management of risk in prisons and detention in the face of Covid-19. Further, it intends to investigate the officers’ understanding of the implementation of the protocol system of referral and clinical management for the trained citizens and detainees identified as positive suspect. This study also discusses a contingency plan to face Covid 19, to understand how correctional officers handle Covid-19, to know coordination between prisons and detention by the stakeholders’ policies related to Covid-19, to measures preventive and control action to tackle Covid-19 performed by prisons and detention facilities, and also to know the implementation of the case management by the prisons and detention. The results showed that 74% of prisons and detention centers in Indonesia have a moderate level of preparedness for Covid-19. Additionally, 13% of the prisons and detention centers have a high level of preparedness, while 13% have a low level of preparedness. The research was carried out quantitatively by emphasizing the analysis of data in the form of numbers that are processed statistically. This is done to understand the general pattern in several prisons and detention centers so that conclusions can be drawn to improve policies related to the handling of Covid-19.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Padmono Wibowo
AU  - Maki Zaenudin Subarkah
AU  - Mulyani Rahayu
AU  - Pramono
AU  - Naniek Pangestuti
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/08
TI  - Prisons and Detention Facilities Preparedness in Indonesia for Preventing and Control of Covid-19
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Law and Human Rights 2020 (ICLHR 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 147
EP  - 152
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210506.021
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210506.021
ID  - Wibowo2021
ER  -