Inmates and Staff Fearful as Coronavirus Strikes Prisons, Jails

Coronavirus outbreaks in prisons and jails across the country have the potential to cripple any gains made by local communities in curbing the pandemic.

"They're not some isolated spot where you can just stick people," said Steffi Woolhandler, MD, MPH, a primary care physician, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program and co-author of a recent JAMA editorial on this topic.