Panel monitoring response to COVID pandemic finds most people in prisons and jails are wearing masks Cloe Poisson :: CT Mirror.org A sign was taped to a car window calling for the freeing of prisoners at York Correctional Institution in Niantic, Monday, April 13, 2020, during a car protest by community organizers and prison advocates in a park next the women’s prison. They were calling for the release of prisoners who are at risk on infection from the Covid-19 virus. During four visits to prisons and jails in October and November, a five-member monitoring panel — formed as a result of the ACLU of Connecticut’s class action lawsuit on COVID-19 in correctional facilities — found that most incarcerated people and staff were wearing masks.