The lawsuit accuses New York of deliberate indifference in its treatment of nearly 100 inmates transferred to an upstate prison lacking basic protocols to curb the virus.
In December, the number of New York State prison inmates who tested positive jumped from about 1,800 to 3,100, Horwitz said.
Since the pandemic began, the coronavirus claimed the lives of 24 incarcerated individuals in state prisons, including six in the last three weeks, and six staff members of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
A call to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision wasn t immediately returned.
The positivity rate between Dec. 24 and 31 is 14.6%, according to Misshula.
To put that number in perspective, a geographical area is designated as an orange zone by New York state if there s a 4% infection rate. These numbers don t include the correction officers.
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PETALING JAYA: In the dark underbelly of cyberspace, liars and cheats lurk. They have been responsible for more than RM769 million in losses suffered by unwary surfers in Malaysia from 2017 to 2019, but the worst is yet to come.
The Covid-19 pandemic has made the internet fertile ground for them to spread like wildfire.
Most of us are now forced onto digital platforms to perform various tasks, such as work or to make purchases, so the risk rises significantly.
It is usually at times of crisis when opportunistic and professional scammers rear their ugly heads, according to criminologist Dr Mohammad Rahim Kamaluddin.