The high turnover rate in the nation's more than 3,100 city and county jails renders them particularly susceptible to contagion On Wednesday, 18 March, while New York emerged as the national center for the coronavirus, a desperate message was dispatched from the city's notorious Rikers Island. "A storm is coming," tweeted Dr Ross MacDonald, the chief medical officer for the city's jails, in a frantic plea for action from local officials. "I know what I'll be doing when it claims my first patient...
US jails will become death traps in the coronavirus pandemic | Jean Casella and Katie Rose Quandt
The Guardian - 30 Mar 2020 18:12
The high turnover rate in the nation's more than 3,100 city and county jails renders them particularly susceptible to contagion On Wednesday, 18 March, while New York emerged as the national center for the coronavirus, a desperate message was dispatched from the city's notorious Rikers Island. "A storm is coming," tweeted Dr Ross MacDonald, the chief medical officer for the city's jails, in a frantic plea for action from local officials. "I know what I'll be doing when it claims my first patient...
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