State prison COVID plan questioned as facilities become hotspots
Written by Juliana on December 29, 2020
State prison COVID plan questioned as facilities become hotspots
By Tyler Pratt
December 29, 2020
One in five prisoners in the U.S. has had COVID-19. That’s according to The Marshall Project and that rate is four times as high as the general population. In Pennsylvania, the Department of Corrections has recently taken new steps to combat the virus behind bars.
Prisoners are also high state priority for the coronavirus vaccines, but the timeline for distribution is not yet clear.
To unpack some of the issues surrounding COVID and corrections in the commonwealth, WLVR’s Tyler Pratt recently spoke with Joseph Darius Jaafari, a journalist who covers prisons for Spotlight PA, about a new program the Correction Department has rolled out to deal with COVID.
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