More than 500,000 inmates in the nation’s largest prison systems were on near-lockdown this week as authorities scrambled to guard against outbreaks of the coronavirus.
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"You have a confined population that already may not be in the best of health due to prolonged drug use and alcohol abuse," Robinson said."There is often no way to set up an effective quarantine" because prisoners are confined in small cells."You also have staff in those very close quarters that makes them so vulnerable, too."
Larry Levine, a federal prison consultant who prepares offenders for incarceration, said inmates and their families are expressing growing anxiety about the threat, especially to those who have pre-existing illnesses. Late Friday, the agency suspended visitation at all of its 122 facilities for at least 30 days. That includes attorney-client meetings, except when approved by prison authorities.Shane Fausey, president of the federal prison workers union, applauded the action as"unprecedented."
In Pennsylvania, authorities are no longer admitting prisoners to three facilities. Two of the prisons operate nursing homes for offenders; another serves as an inmate cancer ward.
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