Prison inmates across the country will be kept to their assigned cells for the next 14 days — effectively putting them in lockdown.
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In an effort to tamp down the COVID-19 infection rate across the nation's corrections system, the Federal Bureau of Prisonson Tuesday that starting Wednesday, inmates in all of its institutions across the country will be kept in their assigned cells or quarters, effectively putting them in lockdown.In addition, the BOP said, it is working with the U.S. Marshals Service to"significantly decrease incoming movement" to American prisons, though it did not specify how that would happen.
The BOP added that"to the extent practicable," inmates would still have access to programs and services, including mental health services, and that"limited group gathering" would give prisoners continued access to commissaries, laundry and showers, as well as to telephones and email. However, Tuesday's announcement did not include any new measures regarding guards and other prison staff., the BOP said it had instituted"increased health screening" for inmates and staff as well as"increased sanitary measures." New prisoners were also placed in a 14-day quarantine, and visitors were restricted.
Current reports from around the country indicate that prisons and jails are in crisis. On Tuesday morning, the
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