Families Of Inmates Say Stillwater Prison Didn’t Do Enough To Prevent COVID Outbreak

From CBS Minnesota:

By Liz Collin

November 2, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Corrections officers and inmate families are asking questions after a large COVID-19 outbreak at Stillwater prison turned deadly. An inmate who was died at the prison on Sunday.

The Department of Corrections said he had an extensive medical history. He tested positive for COVID-19 about two weeks ago, but some families and workers say the prison didn’t do enough to prevent the rampant infection rate inside.

More than half of the men incarcerated at Stillwater Prison have tested positive for COVID-19. The numbers have jumped by more than 100 in a week to 750 inmates. The number of staff infected has more than doubled in a week to 140.

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