The Mississippi Department of Corrections issued the following statement.
Effective
immediately, visitation at all facilities where Mississippi Department
of Corrections inmates are housed is temporarily suspended until further
notice in order to establish sanitation and prevention protocols
to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This is a precautionary measure to
protect staff, inmates, volunteers, and visitors from potential exposure
to the coronavirus.
Attorneys
and essential visitors will be allowed, and the area of visits will be
sanitized upon completion of each visit. Additional parameters will
be determined as protocols are established.
“We
acknowledge any inconveniences that inmate family members and others
may experience from the temporary suspension of visitation,” said Deputy
Commissioner Jeworski Mallett, who
manages state, private, and regional prisons in the state. “However,
these actions are necessary for public safety and protecting our
inmates, their loved ones, and our staff.”
Also,
the Corrections Department is reinforcing common health practices based
on preventive measures recommended by the Mississippi Department of
Health in accordance with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
There are currently no confirmed cases of COVID-19 within the MDOC prison system.
6 comments:
i hate this
I wont be able to visit my wife, her parents and her three siblings-
Not to worry, 2:27, they'll probably be allowed in to see you in a month or two.
No visits mean weed and skittles will be at a premium.
How will some of the staff make extra money ?
Stopping visitation seems to be a reasonable way to keep Corona virus out of the inmate population, but what is to keep it from being spread by the staff? They work their shift and go out into the public where they can be exposed then bring it in on their next shift. Stopping visiting looks like the MDOC is trying to do the right thing, but are they?
A recent survey of people who did or are serving life in prison shows that approx. 100 per cent die in prison.
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