Coronavirus Montville: Corrigan-Radgowski Inmate Tests Positive

UNCASVILLE, CT — The state department of corrections said Monday that a 32-year-old prisoner at Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center has tested positive for cornonvirus.

Officials said the man is the "first DOC offender in the system to test positive for the virus."

In a press release from the Connecticut Department of Correction, officials said "as soon as it was suspected the offender had symptoms consistent with the COVID-19 virus he was isolated from the rest of the population. Once the positive test result was confirmed, he was placed in a negative pressure isolation room. The negative pressure room, which allows for air to flow into, but not escape from the room - thus containing airborne contaminants within the room, is located in the Corrigan building of the correctional facility."

His name is being withheld due to federal health privacy regulations, corrections officials said.

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"The other offenders who were located in the same housing unit as the affected offender will be isolated from the rest of the population for 14 days. All offenders in the vicinity of the effected individual received temperature checks and are continued to be monitored closely by the facility’s healthcare staff," the DOC press release reads.

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