Prison Covid

A federal judge ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Wallace Pack Unit, which houses disabled inmates, to implement a weekly Covid-19 testing plan for inmates at the prison, finding prison officials demonstrated deliberate indifference by failing to take obvious precautionary public health measures.

HOUSTON — A federal judge ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Wallace Pack Unit, which houses disabled inmates, to implement a weekly Covid-19 testing plan for inmates at the prison, finding prison officials demonstrated deliberate indifference by failing to take obvious precautionary public health measures.

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