Posted on 03/20/2020 6:08:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As much of the nation adjusts this week to sudden and indefinite home confinement, prison and jail wardens across the U.S. are scrambling to forestall an outbreak of COVID-19 inside a crowded U.S. correctional facility.
With the highest incarceration rate of any nation in the world, the U.S. faces unique challenges among its roughly 2.3 million inmates as the coronavirus surges silently through all 50 states.
As projected staff shortages and fears of thinning medical resources cascade through the nation’s patchwork of federal, state, county and private prisons and jails -- where even rudimentary protective measures like alcohol-based hand sanitizers are considered contraband in many facilities -- officials told ABC News they are preparing for the worst.
“I think the threat level is at 10 now,” said Scott Kernan, a former secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “The [nation’s] corrections leaders are struggling to figure out what the national response will be.”
Burdened by often crowded and at times unsanitary conditions, a generation of aging inmates, and a large portion of its population suffering underlying chronic health issues, the tinderbox conditions inside at least some of the nation’s more than 6,000 incarceration facilities have corrections officials and organizations stockpiling supplies and hustling out medical guidance through webinars.
“People refer to cruise ships as petri dishes, but nobody has invented a more effective vector for transmitting disease than a city jail,” said Martin Horn, a former New York City corrections commissioner.
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“Release the zombies!”
“It’s the only humane thing to do!”
Or put a Red Cross on the doors and weld them shut and walk away...
Thanks ABC, for stirring the pot. knock it off. Nephew is a corrections officer
Quarantine the jails and prisons. If scheduled to be released test them for Kung Flu and if negative release them. All new guests get tested and entered into another holding facility and watched. Only those absolutely negative go to the quarantined prison. No visitors.
I think it would be a biohazard symbol, not a Red Cross.
Are the guards out of bullets?
It’s a reference to Dickensonian London. IIRC Tale of Two Cities. She was locked in her house and left to die like all the other plaque victims. From starvation.
LOCK AND LOAD, Recidivism is 70% within 2-3 yrs, those who are in ll month 29 day facilities is more like 90% DUI’S have been serving time on weekends for some time now. DOPE addicts go right back to using, most never stopped, Dope smuggling into jail, prisons is high.
They are called “Riot Guns” for a reason.
The communists are using this opportunity to release their fellow criminals. I’ve read a few stories of jails releasing prisoners and cops and courts not arresting or prosecuting new ones. The communists are building an army.
I say we should distribute all the Fentanyl Seized amongst the Prisons and Jails every Fr8iday Night, in a couple months we can talk about releasing prisoners.
I’m pretty remote where I am but you would have to be on an island somewhere to be insulated from what’s coming.
Lock them all down.
Feed them in their cells.
They might be in a safer place by staying where they are.
How can they riot if they’re locked in their cells?
“Release the zombies!”Bring Out Your Dead“It’s the only humane thing to do!”
Hear! Hear!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.
All the bullets are allocated for use against enemies of the state (veterans, patriots, Republicans, et al.)...
At least the Wuhan apartment dwellers had the option of cannibalism...
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