The high rate of COVID-19 infections in some of our nation’s prisons and jails is a stark warning of what could happen if our nation continues to treat inmates and healthcare workers in those facilities as second class citizens, unworthy of personal protective equipment.
The outbreaks among the incarcerated will contribute to the current overburdening of hospitals. But more ominously, as asymptomatic inmates are released they will infect their communities, as will correctional healthcare workers who travel daily from their facility to their home. If our nation wants to turn the corner on the global pandemic, we must move quickly to address this aspect of the crisis.
Read the full Op Ed here: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/opinion/2020/05/08/coronavirus-nc-prisons-jails-reignite-covid-19-pandemic-unless-we-act-stop/3076222001/