Posted on 12/15/2020 11:59:16 AM PST by Hojczyk
A Minnesota Department of Corrections employee told Alpha News this week that staff wellness areas were shut down in early November and remain closed, yet indoor exercise areas for inmates were reopened earlier this month.
Meanwhile, public gyms across the state were ordered to close by Gov. Tim Walz.
“The decision regarding staff wellness rooms was made in consultation with the Minnesota Department of Health through a process of questions and answers, and evaluating the potential risk for infection spread. The people who are incarcerated do not have the same options as our staff who can move around and exercise outdoors, in the community, and in their own homes,” a DOC spokesperson told Alpha News.
“The incarcerated people need a place to get their physical energy out or it can become a health and safety issue for them, our staff, and other incarcerated people,” the spokesperson said.
The DOC employee, who asked to remain anonymous, claimed that the “entire inmate population has opportunities to exercise outdoors at least two to three hours daily.”
“They can also (and typically do) work out in their cells. Some of the living units throughout the state have workout equipment inside the unit (Stillwater and St. Cloud), but every facility has a gym for inmates to use,” added the employee, who said the DOC reopened gyms for inmate use on Dec. 2.
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Make it mandatory for them to receive the vaccine.
The lawyers would have a field day.
Hilarious...
Showers and the infamous soap-drop event always open in prisons...
So if I want to go to the gym all I have to do is commit a crime in Minnesota? I think they call this a perverse incentive.
It makes them strong so they can beat up staff and fellow prisoners more successfully.
They are not prisons... they are gladiator schools
More freedom as a prisoner than a citizen.. HONK HONK
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