Knowledge shows that nine inmates and seven staff members of the state’s largest criminal have so far tested positive for the coronavirus outbreak.
Prison officials announced Tuesday that 3 other inmates and four others at Oahu Community Correctional Center tested positive for the COVID-19 outbreak in the state’s largest prison.
The facility’s staff reported that national guards began mass criminal testing in a dormitory at the criminal complex on Tuesday.
Mass testing in Annex 1 began in the afternoon, and criminal officers working in the annex also gathered for evidence, according to staff. Staff agreed to discuss the stage on the condition that they were not identified.
To date, the State Department of Public Safety has reported that a total of nine inmates and seven adult correctional officers at the OCCC have tested positive. The prison said they feared the virus had already spread far beyond the cases known until now.
More than a hundred inmates were housed in the Annex 1 bedroom prior to the outbreak, and staff reported that at least one inmate and one criminal officer had also tested positive for Module 19. This module was used as a standby domain or quarantine site for inmates when they first arrive in the criminal.
Prison protocol requires newly arrived inmates to remain in Module 19 for two weeks before being placed in the general population, however, he stated that the era of isolation had been shortened for some inmates as the module was filled, and that some inmates had been moved early and involved. elsewhere in the prison.
Online reports through the ministry show that on Monday, 170 OCCC inmates were assessed, more than three times the number the branch reported being examined on Monday. Results are expected for 114 inmates.
The positive effects of the control led criminal officials to quarantine 322 criminals at the OCCC, and 20 are in medical isolation. The criminal had 837 men and 101 women as of August 3.
The criminal stopped transporting inmates to court appearances Monday until at least Friday, according to the department. Video hearings will be held as much as possible, according to prison officials.
According to the department, the OCCC also hires a professional cleaning and sanitation company to carry out a thorough cleaning of quarantine equipment and admission spaces at the OCCC.
“Meanwhile, OCCC’s lines of operations and paints are expanding the cleanliness of all housing and reception areas,” prison officials said in a written statement.
Hawaii’s public defender James Tabe said his workplace plans to register a new application to the Hawaii Supreme Court to take steps to reduce the criminal population and allow social estrangement and curb the spread of COVID-19 on state criminals.
In April, the court created an expedited procedure to release low-risk prisoners in response to a request from Tabe’s office, but this initiative has expired and the population has since increased.
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