The Constitution requires us to protect people in prisons from diseases like Covid-19. Courts have ruled over and over that we need to protect people in prisons from unsafe, life threatening conditions.https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/insight-protecting-prisoners-in-pandemics-is-a-constitutional-must …
We are all in this together, as @chesaboudin has wisely highlighted elsewhere, when our prisons so criminally unhygienic and overpopulated(Brown V Plata), that means that both the staff and the prisoners become ill. Over criminally overpopulated prisons are a risk to us all.