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There are an estimated 2.3 million people locked up in jails and prisons across the United States. That’s equivalent to the entire city of Houston being behind bars. How are these facilities preparing? Well...https://couriernewsroom.com/2020/03/09/coronavirus-could-wreak-havoc-in-u-s-prisons-and-jails/ …
Prisons and jails are a petri dish for the spread of infectious disease and “it seems inevitable that either a prisoner or a staff member is going to become infected,” according to Amy Fettig, deputy director of the @ACLU's National Prison Project.
“What we know from healthcare officials is that one of the number one ways to prevent the spread of coronavirus is washing your hands,” Fettig said. “We’ve got people who are locked down and unable to get soap to take basic preventative measures.”
Federal, state, and local facilities all insist they're implementing protocols and procedures and following CDC guidance as they try to protect against coronavirus, but those claims have been met with some skepticism.
“Our experience with institutions across the country is they are extremely secretive when they have, for example, scabies outbreaks or other infectious diseases. They frequently don’t report incidents to the public health system like they are supposed to."
"As a result, they often have outbreaks that get out of control and harm many more people than they should have,” Fettig said. “That simply can’t happen here because they are putting all of us at risk.”
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