I can't think of a more dangerous place for this desease to spread. Their medical staffs are woefully understaffed and can only handle basic health care.
When one thinks of all the bodily fluids that the prisoners are exposed to, on a daily basis, whether it be rape, beatings, stabbings and homosexual activity, it could quickly become endemic.
It is possible that prisons could be a breeding ground for Abola and, as prisoners leave the system, spread it into general population.
But I'm sure the 'don't worry about it' CDC is on top of that too. /sarc
Well, if it enters the maximum security prisons with psychotic killers and other types of dyed in the wool violent criminals, it’ll save the taxpayers a lot of money in the long run.
Color me conflicted
Any particular reason you are calling it ‘A’bola?
Ebola is Liikely worse.
They could protect the jails and all the rest of us die.
My first reaction is, “Who cares?”
Then my softer side comes out and I ask myself, “Maybe this guy has someone in the system, and I should be more compassionate.”
So, my final response is, “I don’t care, but I have no one in the system.”
I would imagine the guards would eventualy stop going to work.
I was hoping that SOMEONE could look past my typo and consider the content, but I get it, dwelling on an error is just too much fun to resist.
Abola>>>Ebola. Yeah I know that won’t stop the sarcasm so carry on.
There is a problem with it making its way to the prisons. It will go the police stations and infect our police force, before the infectee makes it to the prison.
Establish necessary locations, then quarantine the asymptomatic and transfer the symptomatic to those locations.
Well that’s one cure for overcrowding.
On a more serious note, it won’t.
That would be called Karma Police.
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.
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.
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.....
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.