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COVID-19, Rodents, Unpaid Labor: A Year in the Allegheny County Jail Kitchen In many ways, the kitchen is the heartbeat of the Allegheny County Jail.  Forty workers at a time prepare food for more than 1,600 hungry men and women. Standing shoulder to shoulder, they transfer meatballs, applesauce and peas to trays, then load those trays to a big cart and send them up in the elevator. Pantry workers walk the halls, pods, and corridors to deliver that food to their neighbors’ cell door. Hands pass trays and cartons of milk. Bodies bump into each other behind the kitchen line. Workers feed emp...

‘It’s just a matter of time’: Inmates detail horrid conditions amid COVID spike in Oregon prisons Updated Jan 30, 2021; Facebook Share Frances Lanegan has watched with a growing sense of dread over the past month as coronavirus cases have exploded where she lives. Her home -- for the moment -- is Coffee Creek Correctional Institution. Lanegan, a 56-year-old inmate, is serving a three-year sentence after a drug conviction last year. Of the 219 coronavirus cases at the Wilsonville facility since the beginning of the pandemic, 164 have been diagnosed in the past three weeks. She and her c...