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Three months after death, San Diego Sheriff’s Department announces first COVID-19 inmate fatality Mary Plummer | inewsource © Provided by KFMB San Diego The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department has announced that an inmate at the George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa died of COVID-19 – the first coronavirus jail death department officials have publicly acknowledged. The news, announced late Friday, comes three months after 62-year-old Edel Loredo died from the virus and a month after  inewsource first reported it. Loredo was facing multiple charges including...

Shared housing makes jails and prisons especially susceptible to the spread of COVID-19. Credit: Megan Wood Author: Mary Plummer | inewsource, Sofía Mejías-Pascoe | inewsource Published: 12:46 PM PST January 29, 2021 Updated: 12:56 PM PST January 29, 2021 CALIFORNIA, USA — COVID-19 cases in California prisons and jails began to dramatically surge late last year, but there is no way to get an accurate picture of the pandemic inside these facilities because officials use different approaches to count in-custody deaths tied to the coronavirus. ...