Dec 30, 2020
Testing for the novel coronavirus this past week at Muskogee County/City Detention Facility turned up 95 inmates with positive tests.
Sheriff Terry Freeman said testing was undertaken as a precautionary measure, one of many implemented by his office since the first COVID-19 case in Oklahoma was reported March 6. Those proactive measures, he said, kept coronavirus outside the jail until September, when a smaller outbreak was limited to 23 positive cases.
"We're going to keep doing what we do," Freeman said Wednesday after results arrived for the tests that remained pending a day before. "We are very proactive about monitoring inmates even before they test positive â if we even suspect somebody might be infected, we monitor them and any symptoms they might have."