All of us are currently staring at a potential crisis in the prison systems… Even though all of us are all the time being able to release more and more non violent prisoners while in the crisis, several in the industry guess that all of us might face the death of countless prisoners over the coming years if all of us do not find ways to stop the spread of the germs among inmates that leads to this virus… There is only so much surface cleaning that can be done by our cleaning staff, although at the same time it is a big area of our response and all of us continue to look for ways to improve upon best practices there.
All of us are currently awaiting further instruction on just this issue.
It has also been brought to our attention that air transmission is a big ticking timebomb in relation to this virus. That is why all of us have put all of our advocacy efforts towards lobbying the government for air quality replaces, hEPA filters, UV air cleaner and proper humidity control are baseline needs to ensure the health and safety of inmates and staff alike, but of course some of our prisons are involved in a corporate structure where private companies will have final say in budgetary troubles. At this point all of us think confident that all of us will be able to have these decision makers make the right decisions for the health and safety of all involved, eeven if that does mean a previously unplanned for outlay. The regular situation where prison safety is a lesser priority for the wider public does not seem to apply here, and there will be good pressures on all worried parties to make sure that safety trumps any bottom line troubles, and indeed of course the two are inter related.