The top medical officer for California's corrections system has been replaced. The move comes while more than 2,350 inmates are currently infected -- more than half of whom are inside a single facility, San Quentin State Prison.
"We are in unprecedented times as we deal with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic," California Correctional Health Care Services Receiver J. Clark Kelso said in a statement. "In order to meet current response needs while also working toward further delegations of medical care back to state control, it has become evident that a reorganization is necessary for long-term sustainability.
Adnan Khan, executive director for Re:Store Justice, a criminal justice reform advocacy group, said it's impossible for detainees to follow social distancing protocols and other guidelines by the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention.Khan spent four years in San Quentin housed in North Block, where 800 people share 12 collect call phones and 20 shower heads in the communal bathroom.A death row inmate who was found dead had coronavirus.
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