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Starting this week, the New Hampshire Department of Corrections is allowing inmates to request in-person visits, which had been suspended during the pandemic, but there will be different processes depending on the inmate s vaccination status.
People held in New Hampshire prisons who have been vaccinated will be able to hug their visitors. They ll also be able to sit at the same table without remaining six feet apart. Those who haven t been vaccinated will not.
Both vaccinated and unvaccinated people in New Hampshire prisons and their visitors will be required to wear masks.
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At the start of December of last year, there were no known cases of COVID-19 among the men incarcerated at the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility in Berlin. By Christmas, there were 84. The state Department of Corrections says it canât pinpoint how the virus got in. But now, a group of more than 40 inmates have signed a petition blaming the state Department of Corrections.
Thirty-eight year old Anthony Lantas was imprisoned at the Menâs Prison in Concord last year on a parole violation. In early December, as he was getting ready to transfer to the state prison in Berlin, he says he started feeling symptoms of COVID-19.
Incarcerated men claim N.H. State Prisons to blame for Berlin outbreak
In this Aug. 17, 2011 photo, the 1,280 bed federal prison is seen in Berlin, N.H. The state-of-the-art prison is completed, but empty, as funding was not included by Congress in the final budget compromise. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) Jim Cole AP
The federal prison is seen tucked away in the mountains in Berlin, N.H. Inmates at the nearby state prison say inadequate coronavirus precautions were used with transfers. Jim Cole / AP file
Published: 5/7/2021 2:03:44 PM
At the start of December of last year, there were no known cases of COVID-19 among the men incarcerated at the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility in Berlin. By Christmas, there were 84. The state Department of Corrections says it can’t pinpoint how the virus got in. But now, a group of more than 40 inmates has signed a petition blaming the state Department of Corrections.
Credit Cheryl Senter / NHPR
The New Hampshire Department of Corrections says that in order to comply with Gov. Chris Sununu s proposed budget, it would have to cut rehabilitative and educational programs that serve hundreds of inmates every year.
In a presentation to lawmakers this week, DOC Commissioner Helen Hanks said the state is looking at closing the Shea Farm Transitional Housing Unit for women in Concord and the Calumet Transitional Housing Unit for men in Manchester. These halfway houses currently serve around fifty inmates who typically are working in the community and awaiting parole hearings.
The closures would require major shifts at the Concord Transitional Work Center, a minimum security unit at the N.H. State Prison for Men. According to Hanks, 75 inmates would be moved back into higher security units at the prison in order to make room for those formerly at the halfway houses.