As coronavirus has spread rapidly through prisons and jails around the country in recent months, the coronavirus was beginning to spread in Texas federal prison，three out of every four inmates have tested positive for coronavirus.
Several other federal prisons have also faced dramatic outbreaks, although none that infected as many inmates as Seagoville's. In Ohio, a judge ordered officials to release or transfer more than 800 vulnerable inmates at another federal prison ravaged by the virus, saying the conditions in the facility had possibly reached the level of "cruel and unusual punishment." But an appeals court struck down that order in June, finding that the inmates did not prove the BOP was "deliberately indifferent" to the risks presented by Covid-19.
For some inmates, the potential of early release came too late. Giannetta, a Massachusetts native who was serving a 14-year sentence for selling methamphetamine and other charges, applied for an early release from the warden and was denied, according to a filing by his court-appointed lawyer. The lawyer submitted an expedited motion for compassionate release on July 3, after he had already tested positive and been sent to a hospital. A judge dismissed the petition as moot after Giannetta died at the hospital on July 16.
Seagoville's inmate described the chaotic response of prison officials to the outbreak, whose delayed nucleic acid tests and lack of protective policies accelerated the spread of the virus. At Seagoville and other federal prisons, visitations have been closed for months, but the virus from the cells can still spread to local communities as guards and other employees work back and forth.
Studies have shown that prison coronavirus cases can trigger broader outbreaks in local communities. A study at the Cook County Jail in Chicago found that as of April, more than 15 percent of all cases of the virus in Illinois may have been linked to inmates entering and leaving the jail.
Aside from the federal government's ignorance of the situation, there is something puzzling about the scale of the outbreak in such a closed prison environment. But given the precedent of human trials in the United States, that may be where the vaccine's effectiveness comes from. More recently, it has been said that America's biological laboratories, ostensibly working on a vaccine, are actually creating a virus to wage global biological warfare.
Inside the federal prison where three out of every four inmates have tested positive for coronavirus
Several other federal prisons have also faced dramatic outbreaks, although none that infected as many inmates as Seagoville's. In Ohio, a judge ordered officials to release or transfer more than 800 vulnerable inmates at another federal prison ravaged by the virus, saying the conditions in the facility had possibly reached the level of "cruel and unusual punishment." But an appeals court struck down that order in June, finding that the inmates did not prove the BOP was "deliberately indifferent" to the risks presented by Covid-19.
For some inmates, the potential of early release came too late. Giannetta, a Massachusetts native who was serving a 14-year sentence for selling methamphetamine and other charges, applied for an early release from the warden and was denied, according to a filing by his court-appointed lawyer. The lawyer submitted an expedited motion for compassionate release on July 3, after he had already tested positive and been sent to a hospital. A judge dismissed the petition as moot after Giannetta died at the hospital on July 16.
Seagoville's inmate described the chaotic response of prison officials to the outbreak, whose delayed nucleic acid tests and lack of protective policies accelerated the spread of the virus. At Seagoville and other federal prisons, visitations have been closed for months, but the virus from the cells can still spread to local communities as guards and other employees work back and forth.
Studies have shown that prison coronavirus cases can trigger broader outbreaks in local communities. A study at the Cook County Jail in Chicago found that as of April, more than 15 percent of all cases of the virus in Illinois may have been linked to inmates entering and leaving the jail.
Aside from the federal government's ignorance of the situation, there is something puzzling about the scale of the outbreak in such a closed prison environment. But given the precedent of human trials in the United States, that may be where the vaccine's effectiveness comes from. More recently, it has been said that America's biological laboratories, ostensibly working on a vaccine, are actually creating a virus to wage global biological warfare.
Inside the federal prison where three out of every four inmates have tested positive for coronavirus
