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A prison worker was confirmed to have COVID-19 on March 18—the DOC, citing "security and HIPAA restrictions", declined to name the affected prison. The first detected case of COVID-19 in a prison inmate was at Lee State Prison two days later, on March 20. [103] On March 21, CNN reported that three inmates tested positive for COVID-19 at Lee ...
Infectious diseases within American correctional settings are a concern within the public health sector. The corrections population is susceptible to infectious diseases through exposure to blood and other bodily fluids, drug injection, poor health care, prison overcrowding, demographics, security issues, lack of community support for rehabilitation programs, and high-risk behaviors. [1]
COVID-19 cases reported on carcel agency websites were also tracked manually in a separate tab. [25] The initiative was entirely volunteer-run until the first staff were hired in summer 2020 to more systematically track COVID-19 data in carceral settings. [25] The Project now consists of eleven staff members and more than 100 volunteer ...
The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from California prison officials who sought immunity from lawsuits for having transferred inmates with COVID-19 to San Quentin in May 2020 ...
California's prisons reported 3,845 active coronavirus infections among state employees Monday, a 212% increase so far this month. More than 3,800 California prison staffers have coronavirus amid ...
Four Sacramento-area men with ties to a former Internal Revenue Service worker have been sentenced to a federal prison term for their role in a plot to fraudulently obtain more than $3 million in ...
The detainees have minimal access to medical care and no access to COVID-19 testing. [86] Despite Human Rights Watch warnings about the danger of unsanitary prison conditions in the US, [87] the infection rate of prisoners was 5.5 times higher than that of the general population. [88]
Thousands of people — many of them Black — at Holmesburg Prison were exposed to painful skin tests, anesthesia-free surgery, […]