Cuyahoga County Public Safety Chief Robert Coury said the number of inmates with COVID-19 ballooned from eight on Dec. 13 to 144 on Dec. 22. More than 50 corrections officers were out sick with virus as of last week.
Cuyahoga County Public Safety Chief Robert Coury said the number of inmates with COVID-19 ballooned from eight on Dec. 13 to 144 on Wednesday. More than 50 corrections officers were out sick with virus as of last week.
So far, MetroHealth has vaccinated 1,049 inmates. Inmates are not forced to get vaccinations, but the county gives incentives, like free phone time or money in their commissary accounts for snacks and other items, if they get vaccinated. The average hours of red-zoning per day at the jail jumped from 61 hours per day in January to 219 hours in September and 211 in October, according to the most recent data made available by the county.
Two mass-hiring events, in which a prospective candidate can be interviewed and get expedited background checks on the same day, helped bring on about 100 new hires, Viland said. County statistics show the number of “drug incidents,” which could include anything from an inmate being caught with drugs in a cell to new arrestees found with drugs in their pockets -- more than tripled in 2021. Drugs incidents spiked from 83 in 2020 to 279 through Tuesday.
Viland said officials plan to combat the flow of drugs into the jail by installing on Jan. 1 a new body scanner at the entry point of the jail for corrections officers, attorneys, contractors and anyone else who enters the jail. The jail already has a body scanner for inmates.
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