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Pennsylvania Prisons Have Relatively Low Cases, But Are Still COVID-19 Hotbeds

90.5 WESA s The Confluence for Wednesday, December 23, 2020 On today s program: The Pennsylvania Prison Society says while facilities have followed COVID-19 safety guidelines, quarantine protocols have made it hard for those incarcerated to stay in touch with loved ones; The Allegheny Conference on Community Development launched a campaign to encourage Pittsburghers to follow public health guidelines and slow the spread of COVID-19; and the City’s Public Works Director, Mike Gable, retires after 45 years in government. Inmates are more vulnerable to COVID-19 in prison, but some state precautions have helped (0:00 - 6:46) Another state prison saw its first inmate death due to coronavirus early this month. As of Monday, more than 18,000 inmates tested positive for the virus, according to the State Department of Corrections, 65 have died.

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Medical contractor says managing prisoners health a challenge during Covid

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.

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Inmate Died of Coronavirus, But Pa Corrections Never Told Family

Inmate Died of Coronavirus, But Pa. Corrections Never Told Family By Joseph Darius Jaafari of Spotlight PA | December 18, 2020 . HARRISBURG Yvonne Newkirk would talk to her 60-year-old brother Edward Ball on the phone almost every day. He was serving time at a state prison in Luzerne County, where he would also write to her every week. Then, in mid-November, all contact ended. After three weeks of silence, Newkirk was desperate, and asked prison officials where he was housed, SCI-Dallas, for help. But staff there refused to give her answers, citing a federal act meant to protect a person’s private medical information.

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An inmate died of the coronavirus, but Pa corrections never told his family

An inmate died of the coronavirus, but Pa corrections never told his family
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SCI Dallas inmate dies of coronavirus, but DOC never told his family

SCI Dallas inmate dies of coronavirus, but DOC never told his family
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