NEW: Coronavirus infecting America’s prison inmates five times more than outside, new UCLA study shows.
People in Phoenix waited 13 hours for a test, according to the city's mayor, as labs in some areas are backlogged and some testing sites are short on supplies.is now infecting American prison inmates at a rate more than five times higher than in the overall U.S. population, and those numbers are escalating rapidly, according to a new analysis by the UCLA School of Law’s COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project.
“If you’re a facility that’s only testing people with overt symptoms, then you’re going to miss all of the asymptomatic people,” Dolovich said.A law enforcement officer walks outside the entrance to The Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020. BOP is also starting to resume moving inmates between short distances. They say inmates will be quarantined for 14 days before and after the moves as well as tested at each facility. These policies will be in place until July 31. A BOP spokesperson did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment for this report.
The Last Prisoner Project is a nonprofit whose mission is to reform marijuana-related laws and advocate for the release of people incarcerated on marijuana-related charges. With the onset of coronavirus, Gersten said the group has widening its focus. Thompson told ABC News in a telephone interview that he worries day and night about contracting the virus.Michael Thompson is seen here in an undated mugshot.The Michigan Department of Corrections provided face coverings for inmates, but Thompson said he considered them flimsy, so he and other inmates have become creative.
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