China News Service, March 22, according to the Associated Press. On the 21st local time, the committee responsible for the supervision of the New York City prison system said that at least 38 people in prison facilities, including Rikers Prison New crown pneumonia virus test was positive.
In a letter to New York's criminal justice department leaders, Jacqueline Sherman, interim chairman of the Reform Commission, described the prison system in crisis.
On March 21 local time, a closed business in Times Square, New York, USA, staff closed the door with wooden boards. According to statistics released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of the evening of the 21st, there were more than 10,000 confirmed cases in New York State. Photo by Liao Pan of China News Agency
Sherman said that last week, members of the committee were informed that 12 Correctional Services employees, 5 Correctional Services employees, and 21 prisoners detained in Rex and City Prisons were tested for New Crown virus. In addition, at least 58 people were monitored in the infectious disease and quarantine department of the prison.
Sherman noted that "the best way to protect a community of people who live and work in prisons is to rapidly reduce the number of people living and working in prisons."
The Prison Service and medical service providers operating in New York City reportedly did not respond to requests for comment on the letter.
Reports indicate that more than 2.2 million people are imprisoned in the United States. There are concerns that the new crown pneumonia epidemic could spread rapidly in a vast network of federal and state prisons, county prisons and detention facilities. At present, the number of confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia in the United States has exceeded 23,000.