Minnesota ACLU s COVID lawsuit against Department of Corrections can move forward, judge rules
The lawsuit alleges the Minnesota Department of Corrections violated inmates rights through its handling of the pandemic.
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A Ramsey County Court judge ruled Wednesday that the ACLU of Minnesota can go ahead with a lawsuit alleging the state’s COVID-19 approach in prisons violated inmates constitutional rights.
Judge Sara Grewing ruled that all inmates in the Minnesota Department of Corrections can be included in the class action lawsuit, which was filed in October.
The ACLU of Minnesota can also add Gov. Tim Walz, the Minnesota Department of Health and MDH Commissioner Jan Malcolm as defendants along with the DOC.
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Robert Schultz is photographed Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Wells, Minnesota. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com)
ROCHESTER, Minn. Robert Schultz had less than six months before he would be released on supervision. He wondered if he d make it that long.
He peered outside his Faribault prison cell every day and saw a spreading sea of red tags: the mark of an inmate thought to have COVID-19. He knew he was especially vulnerable to the virus. Schultz suffers from kidney problems and sustained lung damage from a 2017 house fire he started in a suicide attempt, which led