More than 500 inmates at the prison in Marin County have tested positive for COVID-19, many of them after transferring from the men's prison in Chino, the site of a massive coronavirus outbreak.
The number of infections at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County continues to soar, with more than 500 inmates infected, officials said Thursday.
The pace at which infections have been detected at San Quentin has risen quickly. According to tallies released by Marin County, there were just 16 inmates at the prison who had tested positive on June 14, but 489 have been diagnosed since then. State Sen. Scott Wiener said in a statement this week that the outbreak at San Quentin occurred afterfrom the California Institution for Men in Chino late last month, none of whom had been tested up to a month prior to the transfer.
“The outbreak at San Quentin is at once tragic, predictable and unacceptable. The fact that 121 men were transferred to San Quentin from Chino without being tested is stunning,” Wiener said.He urged the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce the prison population at San Quentin and implement a policy that anyone released or transferred from any prison be tested before being moved.
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