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The Saskatoon provincial jail has resumed accepting new inmates after admissions were temporarily halted during a COVID-19 outbreak that affected up to 150 inmates and 59 staff.
Active cases among both staff and inmates fell to zero this week, with no reported active cases connected to the outbreak, which was declared Nov. 17, according to the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety.
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The jail admitted 20 new inmates when admissions resumed on Wednesday and two remand inmates tested positive coming into the admissions unit, according to the ministry. This accounts for the two known cases reported at the jail as of Thursday evening. They are in isolation.
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Krystle Lapointe says her worry about her boyfriend’s safety as an inmate at Saskatchewan Penitentiary has been compounded by the COVID-19 outbreak that more than doubled in size over the course of a week.
Usually, she would hear from her boyfriend, who is medium security, a few times a day. Since cases of the virus were identified at the prison more than a week ago, she hears from him briefly, once, every other day or so.
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