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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is sending military reserve support staff to the Cuyahoga County Jail after a wave of medical absences left local officials short handed.
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Cuyahoga County is searching for ways to bring the jail population below 1,000 to properly quarantine inmates potentially infected with the coronavirus.
About 300 COVID-positive inmates and 69 staff members were out last week with COVID-19 illness or exposure, so the Cuyahoga County is taking several dramatic steps to stem an outbreak of the coronavirus in the jail.
The Ohio National Guard has been called on to fill in for sick staff, inmates meeting certain criteria have been released, and the state’s restrictions on inmate transfers have been challenged in court.
According to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley, the governor’s office agreed to loosen restrictions in response to the lawsuit, changing the required quarantine period before transfer to 10 days, instead of 14.