At least 473 inmates and 279 staffers have been infected across the system of 122 facilities.
A Justice Department team has been reviewing conditions at coronavirus-plagued federal prisons where 18 inmates have died in the past month and as infections of inmates and officers continue to mount throughout the system, a Justice official said Thursday.
The low-security facility in Oakdale, Louisiana, has reported seven deaths so far; six inmates assigned to the Elkton, Ohio prison have died; there have been four deaths in Butner, North Carolina; and one at San Pedro, Calif. Michael Carvajal, the current director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, was appointed by Barr just two months ago as part of a continuing leadership makeover following the August suicide of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Earlier this month, Barr ordered an expedited release of prisoners to home confinement at the troubled facilities in Oakdale, Elkton and at Danbury, Connecticut, where infections had been spiking.
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