The Washington State Department of Corrections reported Monday that 272 inmates at Larch Corrections Center have tested positive for COVID-19 to date. That number did not change Tuesday.
Frustrations mount over coronavirus outbreak at Larch Corrections Center
Inmates, loved ones vent about a perceived lack of communication from administrators By Jessica Prokop, Columbian Assistant Metro Editor
Published: January 8, 2021, 6:00am
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As COVID-19 surges through the inmate population at Larch Corrections Center, frustrations are mounting over a perceived lack of communication between facility administrators, residents and their loved ones.
“The communication from staff to inmates is nonexistent. Every day this place is run differently … so we don’t know what’s going on at all,” Robert Wilson, 36, said Wednesday in a phone interview from the minimum security state prison near Yacolt.
‘It’s going to spread like wildfire’: COVID-19 infects more than 200 Larch inmates
Corrections facility staff unprepared for virus, prisoners say By Jessica Prokop, Columbian Assistant Metro Editor
Published: January 7, 2021, 6:05am
Share: An inmate and guard walk through a gate at Larch Corrections Center in December 2009. (The Columbian files)
Freddie Deleon is on the road to recovery after contracting COVID-19 and just months away from being released from prison. But he fears other inmates won’t be so lucky.
The 33-year-old is one of more than 200 inmates at Larch Corrections Center who has tested positive for the novel coronavirus over the last couple of weeks.
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