Massive waves of coronary infection in American prisons

A massive wave of coronary infected people is erupting into the world's largest prison population in the United States, even though officials have begun to open up the economy, saying that the numbers of infected are dropping. The Marion Ohio prison has become the institution with the largest number of infected people throughout the country, with more than 80 percent of the more than 2,500 prisoners, added 175 staff employees, tested positive with COVID-19.

Deaths from Coronavirus are on the rise in state and federal prisons throughout the country. Officials have little opportunity to implement physical distance guidelines while cells are crowded. They are also facing a lack of medical personnel and personal safety equipment.

The threat to the population of 2.3 million people in the United States was observed last week at the death of Andrea Cyril Bear, a 30-year-old woman from the indigenous South Dakota community. After being put in a Texas federal prison in March, she immediately became ill and placed in a respirator. The 30 - year - old girl gave birth to her baby by surgery, but a few weeks later, she lost her life.

There have been riots in Washington and Kansas state prisons over insufficient safeguard clauses and slow reaction by prison authorities.

The spread of COVIDD-19 among prison personnel has made institutions even more difficult to manage. In the correctional institution “Lancen” in Kansas, which suffers from lack of staff and equipment, on Thursday one of the prison guards with a 15-year career, David Carter resigned. He said that it was better to stop paying than to risk his health and that of his family.

“I can no longer stay at a facility that is a clock bomb”, he wrote in his letter of resignation.

The spread of the virus in Marion prison is believed to be just the tip of the iceberg.

Due to the uncertainty of prison management, the problems of federal, state and local authorities, and while many of these institutions are run by profitable private companies, testing and reporting has been random.

“Cavid Prison Data”, a group of criminal and university justice experts, says that based on public reports, 13,436 prisoners and 5,312 local prison employees have resulted in positive cornavirus. Many states and federal prison systems have conducted only a small number of tests. Five out of 50 countries even report no information at all.

Prisons rank among the most infected institutions in the country according to a rating made by “New The York Times”, which includes 10 institutions, led by the correctional institution “Marion”.

The reasons are clear, the prison population is more dense and more difficult to separate than the resorts or tourist ships, which also result from the most disease-hit. Prisons also have lower levels of hygiene, and a large number of inmates have other health problems. Likewise, prisons have not been a priority for officials fighting pandemic.

The figures released last week show the depth of the problem. The Federal Bureau of Prisons, which has 152 thousand prisoners and a staff of 36 thousand employees, has uncovered cases in more than half of the 122 correctional institutions. However, fewer than 3 thousand tests have been conducted, while 1,842 prisoners and 343 employees have tested positive and 36 prisoners have lost their lives.

The situation is less clear in state prisons, which have much of the country's imprisoned population. Some countries like Ohio are making progress in testing and publishing data. Others have done very little. An indicator of the possible extent of the problem, reported by “Corecivic”, a private company that operates in dozens of prisons across the country. It tested all 2,725 prisoners and staff at its “Trousdale Turner” in Tennessee and found that 1,299 prisoners and 50 staff members were positive, and nearly all did not show any symptoms of the disease.

Activists say there was little done at the state and federal level to free non-violent prisoners or whose stay terms are running out, which they thought could reduce the risk of infection, create more space in prisons/ VOA.