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cord-280695-r3oldfaj	Stewart, Cameron	COVID-19 and Australian Prisons: Human Rights, Risks, and Responses	2020-11-09		.txt	text/plain	2818	124	51	This article examines the current regulatory responses from Australian state and territory governments to COVID-19 and a recent case which tested the human rights of prisoners during a pandemic. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a joint statement urging … political leaders to consider limiting the deprivation of liberty, including pretrial detention, to a measure of last resort, particularly in the case of overcrowding, and to enhance efforts to resort to non-custodial measures. (Anthony 2020, ¶4 under "Why releasing some prisoners is the best option") Anthony (2020) called attention to the disproportionate risk on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, given their over-representation in Australian prisons and raised concerns about overcrowding and the impact of poorer health on susceptibility to COVID-19 transmission.	./cache/cord-280695-r3oldfaj.txt	./txt/cord-280695-r3oldfaj.txt