The origins of the outbreak are uncertain, but accounts of workers and detainees reveal shortcomings in how the private company that manages the center handled the disease: There was an early absence of facial coverings, and a lack of cleaning supplies. Symptomatic detainees were mixed with ...
It’s here that Gilmer asks us to imagine the 800,000 American inmates who suffer from some form of mental illness, a total that’s about 10 times higher than those housed in psychiatric hospitals that accounts for a staggering 40 percent of people in our prison system....