pesd2022171006

	PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Volume 17, Issue no.1/ 2023

	Title: The impact of SARS-COV-2 (Covid 19) on the Romanian penitentiary micro-society
	Authors : Dan Vasile ARDELIAN 1,2, Elena GRIGORE 3, Dana Maria CONSTANTIN (OPREA) 3, Elena BOGAN 3, Florina TATU 3 1 University of Bucharest, "Simion Mehedinți-Nature and Sustainable Development” Doctoral School 2 Prison Police Officer – ANP 3 University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography, Romania E-mail : Corresponding author: dan-vasile.ardelian@drd.unibuc.ro
	https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2023171006
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	Abstract The health of prisons also represents a component of the public health. The management of the epidemiological situations, regardless of the environment in which they occur, is, in itself, a major public health issue. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports confirm that the risk of contamination in the prison environment is similar to that in the residential environment. In general, the infection rates in prisons followed those of the population. This virus affects everyone, both detainees and employees of this system. Even in these special conditions, the Romanian prisons did not become sources of infection out of control. The present study will highlight the impact of this virus on the prison environment. According to the latest official reports of the National Administration of Penitentiaries (ANP), the vaccination of the prison population is confirmed in the proportion of 77.4% (currently over 16.0% of individuals being released). Following this pandemic, the ANP leadership together with the responsible national institutions are launching new norms and procedures with immediate applicability, in general, aiming measures to prevent the spread of the airborne diseases.

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