California’s San Quentin State Prison, home to the state’s only death row, went beyond 1,000 active coronavirus cases on Monday in a dreadful break out that now encompasses about a third of the jail’s population.
According to information from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), 978 of the 1,021 cases at the Marin County facility were confirmed in the past 14 days.
” That is our deep location of focus and concern right now,” Gov. Gavin Newsom(D) stated of the break out at San Quentin during his Monday press conference.
The roughly 3,500- inmate jail, the earliest in the state, reaches the turning point as California sees a statewide rise in cases that is requiring Newsom to close down companies and activities in numerous counties that had actually resumed. The circumstance at San Quentin, other state lawmakers say, is disgraceful.
” Unrestrained COVID-19 infections at San Quentin State Prison is developing the worst jail health disaster in state history,” Assemblymember Marc Levine, a Democrat who represents Marin County, said in a statement la