Posted on 10/12/2014 10:43:08 AM PDT by RetSignman
“Who cares?”
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Everyone seems to think that I posted the article because I have sympathy with prisoners, I don’t.
If EBOLA becomes endemic ANYWHERE, it just escalates where it can it can be spread everywhere.
I know, it can be a little hard to understand for some people who are wetting themselves from laughing so hard about a spelling error but this is a pretty common on FR.
That would be called Karma Police.
OK, I’ll bite.
The first issue is how it would get into the system. Because physical contact is limited, it would take an effort to get it into there.
Although, once in the prison system it would spread pretty quickly because in most general population prisons there is a lot of close contact.
In the higher level prisons, there is more seclusion so the chances of spreading is limited.
It would probably take a pretty good run at low and medium security prisons. It would be limited at the supermax prisons. Remember, the more limited the interaction with each other, the less impact Ebola will have.
It would also not sweep through the system. I would image that when it appears somewhere, they would shut down transfers in and out—so it would not move across the system from one prison to another.
Lock the place down, guards and prisoners inside, and walk away. Air drop food.
Ebola in a prison:
It can happen - once Ebola has a few hundred cases here, if that happens. Imagine a visit with a feverish relative with a bad case of Flu (or with a hooker who takes lots of Tylenol so she can still work) just before sentencing.
21 day lockdown for the entire place when diagnosed.
Spray the entire facility down with bleach 3x a day.
Reward well-behaved prisoners with solitary.
Expect massive lawsuits.
Next it was the drug-resistant strain of TB that showed up. One of the older officers at my prison had been assigned to cover an inmate with drug-resistant TB at the outside hospital. The officer ended up dying. The story we heard was that he had undergone chemotherapy prior to his assignment at the hospital. The treatments had weakened his immune system and made him vulnerable to infection. We never actually knew if he died because he contracted TB, or from whatever cancer he'd been getting the chemo treatments for. I can't remember what time they started testing us regularly for TB, but it became a regular part of the job.
At the last prison I worked, we ended up with a Scabies infestation one year. One of my fellow Sergeants, and a couple of officers got them. Thankfully I managed to stay healthy through it all.
The State eventually adopted rules and procedures for blood and fluid clean-up, and toxic waste management. All that stuff was picked up a couple times a week and incinerated at the prison waste disposal unit.
I'd say that NY State has no policy in place to deal with an Ebola epidemic within their system. I'd put money on it. Back when I was working, the big-wigs were more worried about wax build-up on the unit floors, than they were about the inmates carrying weapons, or doing drugs. I haven't seen anyone lately that I used to work with, but I can't believe that anything's changed for the better. I feel sorry for the people who have to work in that environment, and thank God every day that he let me live long enough to enjoy my retirement.
It would be the same as if there were a hit the fan event. There is already protocol on the books. You really don’t want to know but the doors will be secured and no one will be leaving.
The first issue is how it would get into the system.
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New prisoner enters prison.
New guy feels a little feverish.
New guy’s cellmate takes a special liken’ to new guy.
New guy goes to infirmary and throws up.
New guy is sent back to cell and throws up again.
New guy’s cellmate beats him into a bloody mess because of vomiting on his bunk.
New guy is sent back to infirmary, kept there until he heals up.
New guy’s former cellmate gets a NEW cellmate.
New guy’s former cellmate feels a little feverish.
On and on and on and where it stops nobody knows including the CDC.
If that happens expect owebama and holder (or his replacement) to empty the prisons in order to be “humane” thus infecting a LOT of the general population.
Initially medical costs for prisons will spike then fall off drastically when all the inmates are dead.
...empty the prisons...
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Yeah but just to bleach out all the prisons and the prisoners would have to sign written promises to return as soon as it’s finished.
Read Stephen King’s “The Stand.” If your posting from a cellphone in your cell you better hope Randal Flagg comes knocking on your door.
I dont care is my first and second thoughts.....
Yup. That’s my way ‘o’ lookin’ at it!
Epidemics are actually quite common in prisons, and are usually greeted with a shrug.
“Hundreds of reports of MRSA outbreaks in prisons appeared between 2000 and 2008. In 2008, the Tulsa County jail averaged 12 cases a month.”
Cholera is a good comparison to how Ebola would happen in prisons. If the prison went into 24 hour lock down early, the mortality of a prison of a thousand inmates might be limited to less than a dozen.
Sounds like a plan.
Sounds like a good government contract, cleaning up empty prisons.
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