After blanket testing, 75 incarcerated men at Staton prison test positive for COVID
After a rise in COVID-19 cases at Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore, the Alabama Department of Corrections tested all asymptomatic incarcerated men there, and 75 tested positive for the virus.
Those incarcerated men were tested on Nov. 9, ADOC said in a press release, noting that all 1,297 prisoners agreed to be tested. Three more incarcerated people tested positive for COVID-19, one at Donaldson Correctional Facility and two at Draper Quarantine Intake Facility.
Alabama prisons are overpopulated and understaffed, as noted in the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Alabama, alleging the state is violating incarcerated men’s constitutional protections from abuse.
Staton prison was at 265 percent capacity in September, the most recent month for which ADOC has made that data available. The prison was designed to house 508 men but held 1,399 in September.
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