Staffing shortages, a lack of testing, overcrowding and the delta variant have made Missouri's prisons hotbeds of coronavirus spread. Again. Prisoners feel like sitting ducks, while others worry guards will spread it in surrounding communities. kcur
An outbreak of COVID-19 cases at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre has some experts concerned about the conditions.
Additionally, Pojmann also says all state prisons test and quarantine incoming and outgoing inmates as well as inmates who have symptoms. Aikens says the nurse told him to lie and return to his housing unit if he didn’t want to be put into temporary solitary confinement. That shortage means staff resort to holding inmates on extended and frequent “lockdowns.” People on lockdown can’t leave their cells, not even for medical appointments.
“I’ve worked with over 400-plus offenders that had, that supposedly tested positive , and that’s okay,” Ruffino says.that corrections officers have been allowed to keep working even while unprotected or sick. And some staff at Bonne Terre — including Ruffino — refused to get vaccinated.Vaccines have been available to all inmates since April. While 65% of incarcerated Missourians are vaccinated, no one knows for sure how many staff got the vaccine.
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