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Project seeks to protect lives of inmates most risk from COVID
Prisons are super-spreaders for COVID-19, but it’s actually the minimum-security prisons that pose the maximum risk of spreading the disease and the inmates most at risk are often ones serving relatively short sentences for minor crimes. But thanks to volunteer attorneys invoking a new state policy that allows for conditional release under certain circumstances, some qualified prisoners are serving the remainder of their sentences at home.
Steven Wilson of Parker Poe in Raleigh is one such attorney, recently helping a 70-year-old man convicted of a non-violent, tax-related offense secure his conditional release. The client’s minimum-security, dormitory-style living area was crowded with 57 bunks, each separated by just three feet. The dorm was put on lockdown after more than 20 of its residents tested positive for the coronavirus responsible for causing COVID-19.
COVID-19 vaccinations start in North Carolina prisons by Nyamekye Daniel, The Center Square | January 22, 2021 03:00 PM Print this article
About 1,000 of the 1,300 COVID-19 vaccine doses set aside for North Carolina s prisons were sent to the facilities this week.
Four prisons are regional hubs for the first portion of vaccine deliveries from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. The North Carolina National Guard and prison health care workers started administering the Moderna vaccines Wednesday. More doses are expected each week. Prisons were not made with social distancing in mind at the time when they were constructed, so we re dealing with a very difficult situation, North Carolina Commissioner of Prisons Todd Ishee said Thursday. It is challenging our staff. It s challenging our offender population.
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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina s Department of Public Safety announced on Wednesday it has received about 1,000 doses of Moderna s coronavirus vaccine for inmates and prison staff.