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20% of prisoners in the US have had COVID-19, 1,700 have died Updated Dec 18, 2020; Twitter Share By Beth Schwartzapfel and Katie Park of The Marshall Project and Andrew DeMillo of The Associated Press One in very five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, a rate more than four times higher than the general population. In some states, more than half of prisoners have been infected, according to data collected by The Associated Press and The Marshall Project. As the pandemic enters its 10th month — and as the first Americans begin to rece...

1 in 5 prisoners in the US has had COVID-19, 1,700 have died In this July 9, 2020, file photo, people hold up a banner while listening to a news conference outside San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. One in five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, a rate more than four times higher than the general population. In some states, more than half of prisoners have been infected, according to data collected by The Associated Press and The Marshall Project. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) Donte Westmoreland poses for a photo outside a ho...

Killer jails: One in five prisoners in US has had COVID-19, 1,700 have died New cases in prisons this week reached their highest level since testing began in the spring, far outstripping previous peaks in April and August. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- One in five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, a rate more than four times higher than the general population. (Photo | AP) By Associated Press LITTLE ROCK: One in every five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, a rate more than f...

Donte Westmoreland, 26, was recently released from Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas, where he caught the virus while serving time on a marijuana charge. Some 5,100 prisoners have become infected in Kansas prisons, the third-highest COVID-19 rate in the country, behind only South Dakota and Arkansas. “It was like I was sentenced to death,” Westmoreland said. Westmoreland lived with more than 100 virus-infected men in an open dorm, where he woke up regularly to find men sick on the floor, unable to get up on their own, he said. “People are actually dying in front of me off of this ...

“That number is a vast undercount,” said Homer Venters, the former chief medical officer at New York’s Rikers Island jail complex. Venters has conducted more than a dozen court-ordered Covid-19 prison inspections around the country. “I still encounter prisons and jails where, when people get sick, not only are they not tested but they don’t receive care. So they get much sicker than need be,” he said. As the virus spreads largely unchecked behind bars, prisoners can’t social distance and are dependent on the state for their safety and well-being. Donte Westmoreland, 26, was rece...