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This week, there are almost 400 prison guards out sick with COVID-19 and more than 1,100 prisoners with active infections across the state.
Throughout the month of December, Gov. Jared Polis has considered asking the National Guard to help with basic operations inside the state’s prisons laundry, meal preparation, trash removal because massive COVID-19 outbreaks among correctional officers and inmates have sparked a staffing crisis.
This week, there are almost 400 prison guards out sick with COVID-19 and more than 1,100 prisoners with active infections across the state. Seventeen inmates have died so far during the pandemic.
The number of correctional officers on leave has actually improved in recent days it was more than 530 earlier in the month.
‘Of course, it feels unsafe’: Colorado prisons face staffing crisis as hundreds of guards, inmates sickened
This week, there are almost 400 prison guards out sick with COVID-19 and more than 1,100 prisoners with active infections across the state.
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Barbed wire surrounds the Colorado Correctional Center at Camp George West outside Golden, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Author: Allison Sherry (Colorado Public Radio News) Published: 12:51 PM MST December 18, 2020 Updated: 1:03 PM MST December 18, 2020
COLORADO, USA Throughout the month of December, Gov. Jared Polis has considered asking the National Guard to help with basic operations inside the state’s prisons laundry, meal preparation, trash removal because massive COVID-19 outbreaks among correctional officers and inmates have sparked a staffing crisis.
The Colorado Correctional Center at Camp George West outside Golden, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020.
Throughout the month of December, Gov. Jared Polis has considered asking the National Guard to help with basic operations inside the state’s prisons laundry, meal preparation, trash removal because massive COVID-19 outbreaks among correctional officers and inmates have sparked a staffing crisis.
This week, there are almost 400 prison guards out sick with COVID-19 and more than 1,100 prisoners with active infections across the state. Seventeen inmates have died so far during the pandemic.
The number of correctional officers on leave has actually improved in recent days it was more than 530 earlier in the month.