Four more prison workers and three inmates have tested positive for COVID-19, the Alabama Department of Corrections announced Thursday.
Workers at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, the Elmore Correctional Facility, the Kilby Correctional Facility and the Bibb Correctional Facility self-reported positive coronavirus test results, according to an ADOC press release.
Fifty-one cases among prison staff remain active while 25 workers who tested positive have been cleared to return to work.
One inmate at the Easterling Correctional Facility and another at Tutwiler prison were moved into isolated areas in the facilities’ infirmaries after testing positive for the virus, according to the release. There have been 17 confirmed COVID-19 cases among staff at Tutwiler and 2 infected inmates.
In addition to those two new confirmed cases, an inmate at the St. Clair Correctional Facility who had pre-existing medical conditions was taken to a local hospital after exhibiting coronavirus symptoms, where he tested positive for the virus.
Thirteen of 22 confirmed COVID-19 cases among inmates remain active, according to ADOC.
ADOC has tested 191 of approximately 22,000 inmates as of Wednesday.
