FILE - In this March 16, 2011, file photo, a security fence surrounds inmate housing on the Rikers Island correctional facility in New York. Health experts say prisons and jails are considered a potential epicenter for America’s coronavirus pandemic.
Health experts say prisons and jails are considered a potential epicenter for America’s coronavirus pandemic. They are little cities hidden behind tall fences where many people share cells, sit elbow-to-elbow at dining areas and are herded through halls to the yard or prison industry jobs. The first positive tests from inside America’s correctional facilities started trickling out two weeks ago, with more than 350 cases now confirmed in New York, California, Michigan, Alabama and a dozen other states.
“America’s 7,000 jails, prisons, juvenile and immigration detention centers are completely unequipped to handle this pandemic,” he said. With little information coming from within correctional facilities or from the outside world, those inside often try to figure out who’s been infected on their own. Sometimes they learn about it from jail staff members, who have weighed orders to remain silent with their own concerns about the health of inmates and staff, the men say.
So far, most of the confirmed cases in prisons and jails across America have been correctional officers, staff and civilian employees. Sometimes, incarcerated men known to have come into contact with infected people are sent to segregation or to their cells — whether they have a bunk mate or not. “As far as the quarantine goes, it’s a joke,” Prioleau said on a call with the nonprofit Forum For Understanding Prisons posted on Facebook Live. “They putting you in seg. They’re throwing you in the hole and quarantining you if you refuse to go over there.”
kfdinews If it's for the inmates who cares they did a crime they do their time they suffer if it's for the guards they need it
kfdinews Idc if they are inmates or not! Those are people’s moms, dads, brothers, sisters.. ect.. they are human just as we are & deserve to have the same concerns about this as we do! It takes 1 accident or mistake to b where they are! Stay humble & remember only god can judge us!
Do the crime do the time. prisoners have more rights than I do. Stick it out homies
teigland_cindy They are, this administration would just as soon see them all dead.
Keep the animals locked in their cages. Stagger meals, showers, outdoor use etc.
Oh well
Let them go! With the exception of forensic insanity, incarceration remains a modern form of slavery.
I'll bet some of the non-violent prisoners would gladly volunteer to help in any way just in exchange for some humane treatment. Could they be making masks or surgical gowns?
Just like the coronavirus attacks immune systems, Inmates preyed upon others by weakening society via their murders, rape, sexual deviancy, theft,etc,...,prison is the antidote!
joshtpm 'like'?
I have NO problem with this, NONE!
Simple: Don’t commit crimes
Boo friggin who quit breaking the law and you won't be in jail.
That’s terrible. Next you’re going to tell me that the guards ignore rapes and beatings! With conditions like that people are going to not want to go there. Sarcasm*
joshtpm The COs are not allowed to wear masks. They risk bringing the virus home to their families and furthering community spread. This needs to change!
Keep them on 24 hour lock down...That's the best social distancing there is!
It is not any better outside prison.
So they're like the rest of us on the outside locked down in our homes.
Tell them, the MILLIONS of Americans who have NOT committed a crime are NOT protected either! Is this a JOKE?! The Medical Community trying to save lives - in the front lines DO NOT EVEN HAVE THEM! The people serving food SHOULD BE accommodated w/gloves & A MAKE YOUR OWN SHIELD!
joshtpm Thank you!How are you doing today my dear
I am a prison chaplain. They inmates in the facility I serve in are so safe. They are protected. Any person entering the facility is screened & monitored. Staff members are taking the utmost procautions knowing that if the virus comes into the facility it would be horrible.
“ Expendable..” ? Like the 7-11 clerk that you shot in the face ?
“America's 7,000 jails, prisons, juvenile and immigration detention centers are completely unequipped to handle this pandemic,” says Homer Venters, former chief medical officer of the New York City jail system. Over 350 cases have been confirmed in U.S. correctional facilities.
Shelter in place...
Each facility should be practicing social distancing and other methods in prisons to test for best simulation result.
This is all criminal cia fbi All of what he’s done here is criminal. You allowed this enemy into our house DeptofDefense and he’s taken American lives outright now through his deliberate inaction and delay. You allowed a mob boss to get into the White House and kill us.
No way this isn't going to spread OUTSIDE the facility via the penal correction system personnel, amirite? MAGA GOP TrumpVirus TrumpPandemic coronavirus COVID19 publichealth
Do they know they are in prison?
Yeah write it down on a piece of paper and file it under nobody gives a s***
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