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Jan 03, 2021 05:59 AM EST
Around the United States, local jails and state prison systems are battered by a wave of Covid-19 and have resorted to completely shutting down, and transferring their inmates somewhere else, an extreme strategy to keep the virus at bay.
State and local officials from California, Missouri, and Pennsylvania say that so many guards have fallen ill with covid-19 and are inept at working that they snappishly closed some correctional facilities to preserve community security and prisoner s safety.
The fallout is easy to predict, experts say. The open jails and prisons will perhaps become more crowded, unhygienic, and disease-ridden, and the transfers are likely to help covid-19 thrive both inside and outside the walls.
States Are Shutting Down Prisons as Guards are Crippled By Covid-19
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States Are Shutting Down Prisons as Guards are Crippled By Covid-19
States and counties are finding it hard to keep jails and prisons open as the virus ravages both prisoners and staff members. But transferring inmates can spur new outbreaks.
A major virus outbreak at San Quentin State Prison took hold after a large group of inmates was transferred in from another prison.Credit.Max Whittaker for The New York Times
By Brendon Derr, Rebecca Griesbach and Danya Issawi
Jan. 1, 2021
Battered by a wave of coronavirus infections and deaths, local jails and state prison systems around the United States have resorted to a drastic strategy to keep the virus at bay: Shutting down completely and transferring their inmates elsewhere.
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Brown, Schuyler, Logan, Christian, Morgan, Pike Counties all have a correctional center. That might contribute to local spread and spikes.
==I don’t know why I just put myself through all this, but there you go.==
I’m getting flashbacks to Wolf Blitzer and John King on that stupid big board for the what felt like the longest week in history
The side comment about Calhoun and testing is applicable to all the smaller counties in the state. The daily positivity rates are prone to fluctuate a lot due to their small size and small fraction that are tested each day.
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