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Medical contractor says managing prisoners’ health a challenge during Covid
Milford. PrimeCare Medical CEO Tom Weber says employees do their best to safeguard the health of prisoners at Pike County Correctional and other facilities its serves, but cannot control the number of prisoners, which makes social distancing a challenge. Pennsylvania Prison Society’s social services director praises cleanliness at the Pike jail. Pike County Correctional Facility (Photo by Frances Ruth Harris)
Amanda Lee, who said she works at the Pike County Correctional Facility, reached out to the Courier to say assertions made in the article by the relative of an inmate were false, particularly with regard to Covid safety and care. Lee suggested that we follow up with health services administrator Nicole Rattiner. But Rattiner said her role wasn’t clinical. She said she would read the article and get back to the paper, but has not done so.
Published: December 23, 2020 The Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association (PSCOA) is repeating its call for the Wolf administration to immediately lock down all state prisons.
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Letter: Prisons are overwhelmed with COVID-19
Pocono Record
The Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association 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.