Voices Inside and Out
Voices Inside and Out
John Howard Society of Canada, Catherine Latimer, Lawrence Da Silva
Commentary: COVID-19 in Port Cartier Federal Prison
32 minutes Posted Mar 31, 2020 at 1:33 pm.
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  • How sanitary are the conditions in maximum prisons and are prisoners being given adequate cleaning supplies to disinfect adequately to fend off COVID 19?
  • 9 guards and 2 prisoners: How effective were the screening mechanism for the guards who have likely introduced the virus into the prison?  
  • Are guards  taking adequate precautions to avoid spreading virus from one prisoner to another? like changing gloves or washing hands after touching one prisoner and before touching another one
  • Are prisoners being provided with masks and gloves?  Or even given the capacity to make masks for themselves? 
  • Where are the ill prisoners being quarantined?  In medical units, in old segregation cells, or in trailers that are likely available since all family visits have stopped?
  • What is the capacity of local hospital to cope with community outbreak and ill prisoners?  Will prisoners get inferior health care?