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70% of Spokane-area prison is COVID-19-positive wenatcheeworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wenatcheeworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Seventy percent of Airway Heights Corrections Center’s inmate population have tested positive for COVID-19 and almost all those cases were recorded this month. ....
Seventy percent of Airway Heights Corrections Centerâs inmate population have tested positive for COVID-19 and almost all those cases were recorded this month. Thatâs 1,307 prisoners who have tested positive. Airway Heights is one of a dozen state prisons, but cases there account for a third of all the cases among all Washington state prisoners. On top of that 155 staff members at the prison have tested positive. One Airway Heights inmate died last week. The Department of Corrections has not posted the number of inmates hospitalized from the West Plains facility. When less than a third had tested positive in early December, inmate Tobin Sather described âdecayingâ conditions. In the gym where the sick were housed, 145 COVID-positive men shared four toilets, according to the Department of Corrections. ....
State prison inmates say they're pressured to keep working in midst of coronavirus outbreak yakimaherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yakimaherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sick inmates at Airway Heights Corrections Center are calling conditions “obscene” and “decaying.” Some have described urine on the floor of a gym where 150 coronavirus-positive inmates are sharing four toilets. As the prison faces the fastest and largest COVID-19 outbreak in Washington state prisons yet, minimum-security prisoners are still making food in the Washington State Correctional Industries factory for between 90 cents and $1.70 an hour. Correctional Industries is a state-owned program with “private industry tools” that produces goods, including food, with prison labor to sell mainly to state agencies, according to its website. Some inmates think that work is part of the reason the virus is spreading rapidly. As of Friday, 792 inmates, more than 40% of the prison’s current population, had tested positive. Twelve days prior, the prison had only seven cases. ....