What corrections officials can do to prevent the spread of omicron behind bars
Corrections officials don’t need to repeat the horrors of previous waves of the pandemic in prisons and jails.
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Corrections officials don’t need to repeat the horrors of previous waves of the pandemic in prisons and jails.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul's trasparency initiatives include the MTA Open Data Act; state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli launched a federal COVID-19 funding tracker.
While most corrections systems have never provided much information about the spread of the virus in their institutions, lately it has gotten worse. Even less transparency is available from city and county jails and in juvenile detention facilities.
At two CoreCivic prisons, COVID-19 positivity rates are three times higher than at the average state-run facility in Tennessee.