Putnamville Correctional helps fight spread of COVID-19

Friday, May 1, 2020

Putnamville Correctional Facility has staff and offender cleaning crews working around the clock.

Courtesy photo/DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION

PUTNAMVILLE — Staff and offenders at Putnamville Correctional Facility are working together help fight the spread of COVID-19.

Putnamville Correctional Facility has staff and offender cleaning crews working around the clock. Cleaning crews are sanitizing door handles, tables, microwaves, floors, remotes, offices and other commonly used areas and items.

The facility has utilized the CDC’s Guidelines for Personal Protective Equipment and social distancing.

Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are available to all offenders and staff. Soap has also been given to the offender population and is replenished often.

Offenders in the Purposeful Living Unit Serve (PLUS) program, ISF Honor Dorm and other offender volunteers have been working on producing enough masks to cover more than 2,000 incarcerated individuals and 450 staff members.

“This is a very important project and the offenders in PLUS assisting have become instrumental in lending a helping hand to assist the facility in our fight against COVID-19,” PLUS Program Director Brian Jones said.

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How many cases - offenders and staff - are there?

-- Posted by unbiased on Fri, May 1, 2020, at 7:07 PM
I do not believe all the offenders get the hand sanitizer. The officers must pick which areas get it. They are on lock down to quarantine due to positive cases but are not told how many or what the plan is to keep the positive cases away from others.

-- Posted by tlsande2 on Sat, May 2, 2020, at 3:26 PM
Viruses spread... who would've thought?

The inmates are all locked down and they still contracted the coronavirus.

-- Posted by dreadpirateroberts on Mon, May 4, 2020, at 11:05 AM

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