The state's inspector general says screening and training problems may have contributed to the deadly outbreaks in California prisons.
“Without properly functioning equipment and adequate training, the screening process was certainly compromised, and the risk of infected staff entering the prisons, thereby exposing others, could have increased,” the report noted.
In addition to onsite visits to prisons, the inspector general surveyed 12,000 corrections staff members and found “mixed results.” The vast majority of staffers said they were always screened when entering the prisons, but an average of 5% said they were not. “In addition, according to our review of a sample of screeners’ training records and our survey of screeners themselves, many screeners apparently received no formal training at all concerning their prisons’ screening processes, thus increasing the risk of allowing infected individuals to walk into prison facilities and expose others to the disease,” the report noted.
It was unclear in those cases if the screeners then turned away the insufficiently tested staff and visitors or allowed them to enter the prisons anyway, the report said.
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