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Each county contracts with a health care provider and collaborates with the local health department to manage medical care at the jail, including testing and quarantine guidelines for COVID-19.
WKU Public Radio reporter Rhonda Miller talked with Warren County Jailer Steven Harmon about his personal experience being sick with COVID-19, and about the number of positive cases at the jail and the ongoing testing.
Harmon: We're about percent through testing the inmate population. There were approximately 250 positive inmates. We've had as many as 20 staff members out positive through probably the first part of December. We are still testing at this point. We're back to retesting the folks that were negative in the cells in the beginning of December. Very few of the inmates had any symptoms. We have had a couple that were hospitalized. However, they were a little older in age and had other health issues, but they are being cared for. And most all of the staff have recovered and were released by the health department to come back to work. And we are still testing the remainder of the first round of testing of inmate population. And then we're back to testing some that should be past 14 days and considered recovered, once we determine that there are no more new positives in the cells.