“…The latter concern is especially relevant as the pandemic has reportedly taken hold and ripped through prison systems throughout the globe ( Li & Liu, 2020 ; Montoya-Barthelemy, Lee, Cundiff, & Smith, 2020 ; Steinböck, 2020 ; Циганенко & Великодна, 2020 ). Overcrowding has turned prisons into “incubators” ( UNODC, 2020 ), rendering it extremely difficult to stop the spread of COVID-19 and other communicable diseases ( Beaudry et al., 2020 ; Puglisi, Malloy, Harvey, Brandeau, & Wang, 2020 ). This pattern has been reported internationally in both the developing and developed world ( Gannon, 2020 ; Harsono, 2020 ; Rapisarda & Byrne, 2020 ).…”