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State Sen. Robin Webb said last week the state needs to vaccinate inmates in state prisons and jails as soon as possible. (LRC photo) featured
By BRUCE MAPLES and AL CROSS,
Kentucky Health News Apr 5, 2021
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State Sen. Robin Webb said last week the state needs to vaccinate inmates in state prisons and jails as soon as possible. (LRC photo)
FRANKFORT, Ky. - As the state s coronavirus vaccination program has gradually expanded, so have questions about the very limited vaccinations of inmates in the state s prisons. Questions have been raised recently by families of inmates, their advocates, the news media and state legislators.
Green River Correctional Complex Recreation Leader arrested after selling prisoner cell phone
Green River Correctional Complex Recreation Leader arrested after selling prisoner cell phone By Makayla Neukam | March 10, 2021 at 6:30 PM CST - Updated March 10 at 10:32 PM
MUHLENBERG CO., Ky. (WFIE) - A recreation leader of the Green River Correctional Complex is in jail after KSP says he sold a prisoner a cell phone.
KSP says they were contacted by the Kentucky Department of Corrections and that they suspected Corrections Recreation Leader JMichael E. Collins had brought a cell phone into the prison and sold it to a prisoner. JMichael E. Collins (Source: Muhlenberg County Jail)
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Each county contracts with a health care provider and collaborates with the local health department to manage medical care at the jail, including testing and quarantine guidelines for COVID-19.
WKU Public Radio reporter Rhonda Miller talked with Warren County Jailer Steven Harmon about his personal experience being sick with COVID-19, and about the number of positive cases at the jail and the ongoing testing.
Harmon: We re about percent through testing the inmate population. There were approximately 250 positive inmates. We ve had as many as 20 staff members out positive through probably the first part of December. We are still testing at this point. We re back to retesting the folks that were negative in the cells in the beginning of December. Very few of the inmates had any symptoms. We have had a couple that were hospitalized. However, they were a little older in age and had other health issues, but they are being cared for. And most all of the staff have recovered and w