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Stories and information in our region on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Inmates Settle COVID Suit With Danbury Correctional Institute

File Photo: 2004
Douglas Healey
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AP
Danbury Federal Correction Institution

 

Federal inmates in Connecticut have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that says prison officials didn’t do enough to protect them from COVID-19. 

 

Four inmates at Danbury Correctional Institution filed the lawsuit in April. They said prison officials didn’t take a directive seriously that ordered them to send prisoners home when possible.

At least 89 inmates at the prison have recovered from COVID-19 since the pandemic began. And one inmate has died — out of 101 in all federal prisons.

The settlement calls for the Bureau of Prisons to promptly identify inmates who are medically vulnerable and release them to home confinement. 

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.