A total of 151 inmates in Riverside County’s five jails have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and 120 have recovered, county health officials said Tuesday, May 5.
Twenty-nine are still ill, and two have died.
In Sheriff Chad Bianco’s most recent public update on April 17, he said 107 inmates had been infected and 53 had recovered.
The county went to mediation with the Prison Law Office in April after the Law Office complained to a federal judge that the county was not meeting terms of a lawsuit settlement in which the county promised to improve health care for inmates. After that mediation, the county submitted a written course of action and promised to provide the Law Office with regular updates on the health of its inmates with respect to coronavirus.
That information includes the number of COVID-19 tests on inmates; the number of confirmed cases among inmates, including names, booking numbers and jail locations; the number of confirmed cases among jail staff; the number of inmates who are on quarantine or medical isolation and their locations; the number of inmates hospitalized because of COVID-19; and the number of deaths among inmates and staff.
The Sheriff’s Department, which operates the county’s jails, has declined to share most of that information with the public. The county counsel’s office has not responded to a request for an explanation of why the information was not disclosed.
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