Corrections Infection Control News & Articles

• How the National Sheriffs' Association is working to assist agencies in the COVID-19 crisis

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  The NSA has formed an industry action group in order to better coordinate with and assist sheriffs' offices in getting vital supplies

• 'It's terrifying': Philly COs claim jails aren't doing enough to slow spread of COVID-19

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  A 30-year Philadelphia Department of Prisons veteran has developed a system after her shifts in one of the city's largest jails to protect her family from COVID-19

• Quick Take: Management of COVID-19 in correctional and detention facilities

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  Isolation vs. quarantine, staff PPE guidelines and COVID screening were key considerations addressed during two recent webinars

• Pa. county prison staff, inmates now wearing masks

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  Inmates at Cambria County Prison are required to wear masks at all items, except when they're in their cells

• Interactive timeline: The COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

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  Learn how COVID-19 has impacted law enforcement and corrections personnel and how public safety has adjusted its response

• Judge orders Miami jail to enforce social distancing, give inmates soap

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  The judge also ordered Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation to explain what steps are being taken to protect already sick inmates from COVID-19

• 4 Texas prisons on lockdown due to possible COVID-19 exposures

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  The Rufe Jordan Unit, Dr. Lane Murray Unit, George Beto Unit and Barry B. Telford Unit have all been placed on lockdown

• Pa. inmates making masks, soap, disinfectant to slow spread of COVID-19

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  Inmates have produced nearly 200,000 cloth masks that are to be worn by prison employees and inmates

• Ohio governor deploys National Guard to help federal prison with COVID-19

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  Officials fear that an outbreak of the swift-spreading and contagious disease could overwhelm prison staff and local hospitals in the mostly rural area

• 'They cough and it scares you': Miami-Dade COs fearful of COVID-19 spread

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  Officers are wearing masks and gloves, but have been cautioned to save them for longer periods as shortages loom

• COVID-19 resources from corrections organizations (updating)

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  Industry association websites, webinars and resources offer training, procedures and advocacy for their members who are on the frontline pandemic response

• NJ COs claim state is risking their health as COVID-19 spreads in prisons

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  Officers and inmates across the state prison system described conditions ripe for an outbreak, with a shortage of sanitizing products and lax policies at some prisons

• Union: Ill. county COs don't have proper access to PPE, hand sanitizer

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  Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has repeatedly denied allegations that conditions at the facility are unsanitary or inadequate

• Ala. prison system's COVID-19 plan anticipates widespread infection, deaths

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  A 263-page document says the design of the state's prisons, overcrowding and understaffing make it "impossible" to keep COs and inmates safe from COVID-19

• Ore. inmates making masks for COs, prisoners statewide

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  Officials said the masks are intended to "reduce the amount of droplets expelled from a person's cough or sneeze"

• Attorney General Barr expedites release of inmates vulnerable to COVID-19

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  Highest priority was given to inmates who are being held at FCC Oakdale, a prison complex in Louisiana where five inmates have died

• Concerns, tension mount as COVID-19 cases found inside Va. prisons

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  Officials are following the CDC's guidance and the warden said he regularly checks on inmates and staff

• La. inmates using donated supplies to make hand sanitizer

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  Officials said inmates at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center have "worked tirelessly to produce large quantities of hand sanitizer"

• Mich. prisons now requiring all COs, inmates to wear masks

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  The mask requirement will apply across the board, regardless of whether a facility has been touched by COVID-19

• Whistleblower: Ariz. DOC director barring use of protective masks

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  The complaint, which was filed by Lt. Mark Hasz, says COs at Lewis Prison were told they couldn't bring in or wear their own PPE

• NY to provide masks for COs, quarantined inmates

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  Officers will be permitted to wear either the N95 respirator mask or surgical-type mask in prisons

• Official: NY was 'too slow to respond' to COVID-19 spread in prisons

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  Congresswoman Elise Stefanik said the state didn't suspend inmate transfers quickly enough, a move correctional officers called for weeks ago

• Federal prisons order lockdown to curb spread of COVID-19

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  The directive, issued by Bureau of Prisons director Michael Carvajal, takes effect April 1 and will last for at least 14 days

• Lawsuit: Inmates want hand sanitizer, social distancing amid COVID-19 crisis

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  The lawsuit claims that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has failed to put in place the necessary infection control policies and practices at a geriatric prison

• Okla. jail staff on COVID-19: 'We're taking every precaution we can'

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  Rogers County Jail has stations set up in both ends of the jail for officers to grab PPE and decontaminate; inmates have been given extra soap and hand sanitizer

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