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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThinking about the incarcerated. How terrifying must it be to be trapped as they are right now. nt
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)I can't even imagine.
zonkers
(5,865 posts)stress level there is intense already on so many levels. I have a feeling they are keeping everyone locked down in their cells. Probably letting them out in shifts for exercise. And the pressure on guards must be intense. Their routines must be completely revised. Corrections employess are for sure earning their $$$ now. The thing is, it is most likely that they or family visitors hare the ones who are bringing the virus in.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,565 posts)zonkers
(5,865 posts)inmates close to their release date.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Except for people in their 40s and above with serious chronic illness, but they're well acquainted with their prison medical systems-- and their prison clinicians with them. Prisons also have standard procedures for transferring prisoners to outside hospitals when higher level of care is needed.
That's a positive view of very sad and often appalling situations, of course, but there's no point tearing ourselves up imagining all prisoners are terrified that they're about to die. They're not, and by far most are not.
The flattening of the curve means for most of them, like us, that there should be an ICU for those who need it. Prisons are required by law to provide needed care, ergo the well-used procedures, so for some access may be better than for individuals, say in rural areas.
wryter2000
(46,160 posts)Will get any type of medical treatment at all?
keithbvadu2
(37,134 posts)Prisons/jails and nursing homes alike.
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