The lawsuit calls for Gore to reduce the jail population to levels where people can safely distance, as well as provide widespread vaccinations in jails at levels to ensure everyone’s safety.
The sheriff’s department said 106 inmates were tested for the coronavirus on March 6 after potential contact with an infected inmate at the George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa, in the southern section of San Diego. Of the inmates tested, 46 were found to be positive.
The inmate at the center of the outbreak was booked in mid-February at the San Diego Central Jail, according to the sheriff’s department, and was placed in quarantine for seven days with a temperature check twice a day, following jail protocol.
He was asymptomatic and was transferred to the George Bailey Detention Facility and housed in dormitory housing. He started showing flu-like symptoms on February 27, 12 days after he was initially booked, and later tested positive for Covid-19.
The plaintiff in the lawsuit is 55-year-old Terry Leroy Jones, an inmate at San Diego Central Jail, who was infected in a different outbreak. He is characterized in the lawsuit as high-risk with a multitude of medical ailments. The lawsuit alleges that the virus wouldn’t have spread if those transferred to his close-quarters medical unit had first been confirmed to be Covid-19-free.
The outbreak is “stark evidence of the…
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