New York is using cheap prison labor to make hand sanitizer.
, a maximum-security prison in the state’s Washington County, will be making the sanitizer. Corcraft, New York’s prison-run business, is handling the production. According to Cuomo, Corcraft already manufactures fluids like glass cleaner and laundry detergent, so it will be fairly easy to transition to hand sanitizer. The business should be able to make a 1-gallon bottle for $6.10, a 7-ounce for $1.12, and a travel-size for 84 cents.
Hand sanitizer isn’t the only way the state plans to rely on its incarcerated population if the coronavirus outbreak becomes more severe. The Daily Beast alsothat New York City’s “Pandemic Influenza Surge Plan For Managing In- and Out-of-Hospital Deaths,” which was released in 2008, set up measures to have people incarcerated at the Rikers Island jail complex transported to Hart Island, where they would dig graves for those who die in cases of serious mass illness.
Normally, hand sanitizer is considered contraband in prisons because of the high alcohol content. That’s partly why prisons are particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus. A former chief medical officer for Rikers Island told thethat many prisons and jails have inadequate means to prevent infections since spaces are often dirty, the bathrooms are few and may not have functioning sinks or soap, medical staff is limited, and people are crammed in close quarters. No prisons in the U.S.
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