CHARLOTTE â At a state prison north of the city, more than 100 inmates recently caught COVID-19. Now prisoners and family members are asking why officials created the risk of a larger outbreak by moving infected inmates to a dorm with uninfected people.
On Dec. 20, a group of about seven prisoners at Alexander Correctional Institution was moved from one minimum security dorm that had experienced a coronavirus outbreak to another dorm that had not, eight inmates and family members told The Charlotte Observer.
The following day, after multiple complaints, prisons officials did rapid tests on the inmates who d been moved. At least six of them tested positive for the coronavirus, the inmates and family members said.