Prisons Are Releasing People Without COVID-19 Tests Or Quarantines People getting out of prison are bringing the virus outside because lockups aren’t taking basic precautions. Overtaxed halfway houses and other reentry programs are left to pick up the slack. Nacola McNeil in front of the Leading Into New Communities (LINC) transitional housing in Wilmington, NC, in January. Damola Akintunde for The Marshall Project
Nacola McNeil warned officials at the North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women that coronavirus was spreading in her unit. That virus is here,” she says she told corrections officers in the Raleigh-based prison in April. “What makes you think our unit is exempt?”