A prison west of New Orleans has emerged as a focal point of the coronavirus pandemic inside the nation’s lockups: five prisoners dead from Covid-19 and at least 25 inmates and 21 workers have tested positive
A Louisiana prison guard sat alongside a sick inmate for more than an hour inside a van and his hospital room, told by a supervisor he didn’t need a mask despite the prisoner’s severe cough and other telltale signs of Covid-19.
Within 10 days, the 49-year-old inmate, Patrick Jones, was dead from the coronavirus. The officer, Aubrey Melder, was back at work, having been told days earlier to return, without quarantining, to his duties inside the low-security prison in Oakdale, a lawyer for the union representing prisons employees...
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