Everything is upside down : Airway Heights inmate shares unbearable conditions while fighting COVID-19
According to the Washington State Department of Corrections, 775 inmates at the facility have tested positive for the coronavirus. Author: Amanda Roley Updated: 7:22 PM PST December 10, 2020
AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. The number of COVID-19 cases at the Airway Heights Corrections Center continues to climb, with the Washington State Department of Corrections reporting 775 inmates testing positive.
This means an estimated one-third of the inmate population has the virus.
Tobin Sather is one of those prisoners who tested positive on Thanksgiving Day. Not the turkey I was looking for, Sather said.
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SPOKANE, Wash.– The Washington Department of Corrections’ biggest fear is now a reality as COVID-19 overtakes some jail systems.
The biggest outbreak among Washington’s prisons is right in Spokane County, at the Airway Heights Corrections Center.
As of Thursday, 779 inmates and 53 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, and that’s just 11 days after the first confirmed case, according to a spokesperson. There are 1,600 inmates in the prison.
4 News Now has learned some of the conditions those inmates are living through.
We obtained a memo sent to all inmates, which said the prison is not allowing access to phones, showers and other common use areas.
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The Airway Heights Corrections Center is in the midst of the fastest and largest COVID-19 outbreak Washington state prisons have recorded.
Michelle Kuhn said her fiancé is one of 146 COVID-positive men housed in the prison’s gym, according to the department’s count.
There are four toilets for those men, the agency reported, leading to what Kuhn claimed was urine on the gym floor. The agency denies this.
Susan Biller, Department of Corrections spokesperson, wrote in an email that there’s no Wi-Fi in the gym. This means inmates cannot use their corrections-approved messaging service, JPAY, to communicate with families.