MARQUETTE, MI (WTVB) – While the surge of coronavirus cases among prisoners and corrections officers at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater has appeared to pass, there is a large and growing outbreak of COVID-19 at Marquette Branch Prison in the Upper Peninsula.
Corrections department officials say the outbreak has now infected 85 corrections officers and other staff and 182 inmates as of Thursday afternoon, including 50 inmates who were recently transferred from an infection-free facility.
The 85 cases among staff is the highest number of staff testing positive in any one state prison so far.
Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz says the new transfers were moved out of Chippewa Correctional Facility, after they allegedly participated in a riot.
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