Sheriff refuses to release 1,800 inmates from Orange County jails despite judge ruling HALF of prison population needs to be set free as COVID outbreak sees over 400 detainees test positive
Sheriff Don Barnes issued a stark rebuke of the Friday order from the Orange County Superior Court calling for the reduction of jail populations by 50 per cent I have no intention of releasing any of these individuals from my custody, Barnes declared
The order came after an April lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of the inmates
There were no cases of inmates who tested positive with COVID-19 last Monday
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Officials in Orange County, Calif., are fighting a court order aimed at slashing the population of inmates in the county due to the coronavirus.
Sheriff Don Barnes pushed back against the Orange County Superior Court, which ordered the reduction of the county s jail populations by 50% on Friday in an effort to achieve proper social distancing and prevent further spread of COVID-19. I have no intention of releasing any of these individuals from my custody, Barnes said, according to Los Angeles s KABC-TV. We are going to file an appeal and we re going to fight it and if the judge has any intent of releasing any one of these individuals, he will have to go through line by line, name by name, and tell me which ones he is ordering released.
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SANTA ANA, CA Orange County Monday set new records for coronavirus diagnoses and hospitalizations while also reaching zero intensive care unit capacity in the state s adjusted category. Still, the region remains the epicenter of the effort to roll back the state s stay-home orders with county leaders decrying state measures to slow the spread of the disease.
The county logged 3,250 COVID-19 new infections, raising the cumulative case total to 105,754 Monday. At the same time, sheriff s officials wrangled with an escalating outbreak in the jails.Hospitalizations jumped from 1,236 Sunday to 1,287, including 288 ICU patients, up from 284 the previous day. Both are new records a daily occurrence since last wee
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SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County set new records for coronavirus diagnoses and hospitalizations Monday, while its intensive care units reached zero capacity in the state s “adjusted category and sheriff s officials wrangled with an escalating outbreak in the jails.
The county logged 3,250 COVID-19 new infections, raising the cumulative case total to 105,754.
Hospitalizations jumped from 1,236 Sunday to 1,287, including 288 ICU patients, up from 284 the previous day. Both are new records a daily occurrence since last week.
The county s ICU bed availability shrunk from 11.2% Sunday to 9.3% Monday in the unadjusted category, but is at zero for the “adjusted metric the state created to reflect the difference in beds available for COVID-19 patients and non-coronavirus patients.
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