“You can’t plan for an outbreak of COVID-19 in a prison as if it was like a nursing home or assisted living because there are more variables than just visitors,” the officer wrote in a letter to Evers. “They have inmate transfer from institution to institution, Monday (through) Friday trips to (University of Wisconsin)-Madison for inmate doctor/surgical appointments, semi drivers bringing in supplies, County Sheriff’s picking up (and) dropping off inmates due in court, laundry that GBCI does for other institutions, emergency trips to local hospitals and the list goes on (and) on.”
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