Locked down and locked in: federal inmates face renewed isolation as COVID outbreaks sweep prisons

Experts say that because of an inability to progress on correctional plans, inmates are being kept for longer than they ought to be, and vulnerable to outbreaks of COVID in the congregate settings.

Correctional Investigator Ivan Zinger says nearly two years into the pandemic, restrictions imposed to try to stem the spread of COVID-19 in federal prisons 'remain exceptionally difficult for people behind bars.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ALICE CHEN

January 12, 2022

Facing an "isolation within isolation," as federal prisons lockdown in the face of another wave of COVID-19 outbreaks, prisoners are caught in a state of suspension, where progress on correctional plans, and accordingly, the ability to apply for parole and be released, is halted as well, experts say...

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