Readers React: Stop prison transfers during pandemic
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LETTER: All state prisons should be locked down
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Please lock down all Pa. state prisons and stop inmate transfers | PennLive letters
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
By John Eckenrode
The Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association (PSCOA) is repeating its call for the Wolf administration to immediately lock down all state prisons and stop inmate transfers during the current COVID-19 pandemic surge. This administration often talks of containing spread, so why are we moving prisoners around Pennsylvania from prison to prison? Why aren’t we doing everything we can to limit activity in our prisons?
Our system is on the verge of being overcome. Testing is being done, but there isn’t any consistency from facility to facility. Right now, lockdowns and pausing transfers are the best way to help protect corrections officers, staff and inmates. PSCOA members are overworked and exhausted, working massive amounts of overtime due to COVID-19 illness within their ranks.