{"id":195,"date":"2020-03-25T12:52:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T16:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=195"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:21:39","slug":"covid-19-prompting-significant-action-by-state-and-federal-prison-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/25\/covid-19-prompting-significant-action-by-state-and-federal-prison-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Prompting Significant Action by State and Federal Prison Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, federal and state correctional facilities across the country have confirmed outbreaks of COVID-19 infections among inmates and staff.\u00a0 New York City\u2019s primary jail, Riker\u2019s Island, currently has the most confirmed cases, with 52 inmates and 30 employees testing positive.\u00a0 As this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/2020\/03\/12\/coronavirus-poses-unique-risk-to-u-s-prison-population\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog<\/a>\u00a0and other outlets have reported, crowded conditions, limited access to healthcare, and a high-risk population mean those incarcerated are particularly vulnerable to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jovalindedaj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jovalin Dedaj<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/2020\/03\/25\/covid-19-prompting-significant-action-by-state-and-federal-prison-authorities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris White-Collar Criminal Law Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, federal and state correctional facilities across the country have confirmed outbreaks of COVID-19 infections among inmates and staff.\u00a0 New York City\u2019s primary jail, Riker\u2019s Island, currently has the most confirmed cases, with 52 inmates and 30 employees testing positive.\u00a0 As this\u00a0blog\u00a0and other outlets have reported, crowded conditions, limited access to healthcare, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/25\/covid-19-prompting-significant-action-by-state-and-federal-prison-authorities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;COVID-19 Prompting Significant Action by State and Federal Prison Authorities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[376,222,223,682],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-coronavirus-testing","tag-correctional-facilities","tag-incarcerated","tag-testing"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}