California’s San Quentin State Jail, house to the state’s only death row, exceeded 1,000 active coronavirus cases on Monday in a disastrous outbreak that now incorporates about a 3rd of the prison’s population.
According to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), 978 of the 1,021 cases at the Marin County facility were validated in the past 14 days.
” That is our deep location of focus and concern right now,” Gov. Gavin Newsom(D) said of the break out at San Quentin throughout his Monday press conference.
The approximately 3,500- inmate prison, the oldest in the state, reaches the milestone as California sees a statewide surge in cases that is requiring Newsom to close down services and activities in several counties that had reopened. The circumstance at San Quentin, other state legislators say, is shameful.
” Unrestrained COVID-19 infections at San Quentin State Jail is creating the worst jail health catastrophe in state history,” Assemblymember Marc Levine, a Democrat who represents Marin County, stated in a declaration la