More than 38 people have tested positive for coronavirus in New York City jails, including at the notorious Rikers Island jail complex
Candles are seen on the sign marking the entrance to the New York City Department of Corrections Rikers Island facility in Queens, in New York, US, February 14, 2018.
“The best path forward to protecting the community of people housed and working in the jails is to rapidly decrease the number of people housed and working in them.” Late Saturday, the department acknowledged 19 inmates had tested positive - two fewer than in the board’s letter - and 12 staff members. The city-run agency that provides inmate health care did not respond to messages seeking comment on the board’s assertion that some of its employees were also infected.
It’s a tightly packed, fluid population that is already grappling with high rates of health problems and, when it comes to the elderly and the infirm, elevated risks of serious complications. With limited capacity nationally to test for Covid-19, men and women inside worry that they are last in line when showing flu-like symptoms, meaning that some may be infected without knowing it.
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