{"id":1242,"date":"2020-04-07T18:29:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T18:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2023-08-10T05:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T05:35:15","slug":"how-are-jails-protecting-inmates-from-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/2020\/04\/07\/how-are-jails-protecting-inmates-from-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"How Are Jails Protecting Inmates from Coronavirus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With more than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/cases-updates\/cases-in-us.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">3,100 cases of COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0or Coronavirus in Indiana, safety is on everyone\u2019s mind. If you have a loved one in the Indiana penal system, you may be wondering what Indiana is doing to keep inmates safe and healthy. According to the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC), the IDOC and Wexford, the contracted healthcare provider for IDOC have protocols in place that involve education, screening, and isolation of health care staff, custody personnel, and offenders.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Education_and_Protection\"><\/span>Education and Protection<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/2020\/04\/07\/how-are-jails-protecting-inmates-from-coronavirus\/#Education_and_Protection\" title=\"Education and Protection\">Education and Protection<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/2020\/04\/07\/how-are-jails-protecting-inmates-from-coronavirus\/#Screening_and_Isolation\" title=\"Screening and Isolation\">Screening and Isolation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/2020\/04\/07\/how-are-jails-protecting-inmates-from-coronavirus\/#Early_Release\" title=\"Early Release\">Early Release<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>Senior IDOC and Wexford clinical staff are conducting in-person and telephone educational briefings, posting flyers from the Indiana Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The IDOC staff is also airing educational announcements on the IDOC offender television system. In addition to educational materials, the department is working to ensure that all facilities have the materials necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including hand sanitizer and running water and soap.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Screening_and_Isolation\"><\/span>Screening and Isolation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>IDOC is also screening individuals at the places they are most likely to enter the system, including offender reception areas where IDOC first holds new prisoners. IDOC is also screening people in visitation areas where family members, attorneys, and other visitors can potentially bring COVID-19 in from the community. IDOC will also screen parole violators returning to the IDOC system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If screening indicates that an offender has recently been in a location with a known COVID-19 outbreak and is showing symptoms of the virus, Wexford will place them in isolation until they can rule out a COVID-19 infection. For severe symptoms, local IDOC or Wexford staff will send offenders to a local hospital emergency room. For prospective visitors presenting with the same conditions, they are informed of their screening results and not permitted to enter an IDOC facility.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Early_Release\"><\/span>Early Release<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/files\/covid19-2020-0403-release-assessment-local-effort.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">recent letter<\/a>\u00a0from Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb, Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, House Speaker Todd Huston, and Chief Justice Loretta Rush gave local jurisdictions leeway in determining whether or not to offer an early release to low-risk, non-violent juveniles, and other inmates. While the letter stressed that no one solution would work for every community, it did encourage local leaders to work together to determine the safest way to lower the risk of COVID-19 infections in jails and prisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than\u00a03,100 cases of COVID-19\u00a0or Coronavirus in Indiana, safety is on everyone\u2019s mind. If you have a loved one in the Indiana penal system, you may be wondering what Indiana is doing to keep inmates safe and healthy. According to the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC), the IDOC and Wexford, the contracted healthcare provider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersreadytofight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}