Article by Social Share Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds. Superintendent of Prisons Lieutenant Colonel John Nurse disclosed yesterday that some of them had submitted sick certificates. However, he said 70 officers, including himself, had returned to the job. Nurse was giving an update during yesterday’s press conference on the situation since COVID-19 struck there two weeks ago, resulting in 240 male inmates and 72 staff testing positive for the virus. The prison, which has an inmate population of 790, was being managed by a combination of forces, including the Barbados Defence Force and the police. “A significant number of us tested negative twice and were eventually released. The vast majority of those persons have joined the working parties that we have here at the prison,” Nurse told the media.