Late last week, Indiana’s Lake County Jail went into quarantine due to an outbreak of MRSA skin infections among its prisoners:
She [Warden Caren Jones] said a number of diseased inmates are being kept together in isolation, and inmates who would normally be transferred to less restrictive housing, such as the work-release center, will be held in the jail.
The medical emergency comes as Jones and County Sheriff Rogelio “Roy” Dominguez have warned that chronic overcrowding in the jail will result in costly problems. Inmate population is well over the design capacity of 1,040. [Source]
In an update over the weekend, the spokesperson for the county police can not comment on whether the inmates are suffering from MRSA or from something else.
Things that make ya go “hmmmmmm.”
Indiana, MRSA in Prisons
4 responses so far ↓
Mike the Mad Biologist // Aug 15, 2006 at 7:45 am
Interesting MRSA Website…
I found a site called MRSA Notes that’s all about methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus….
previous inmate // Apr 19, 2008 at 3:56 pm
i was an inmate in the lake county jail in January of2007. there were some inmates suffering from the same outbreak. but the inmates that i refer to were not in fact quarantined as stated. they were housed with between 8 to 16 other inmates. now how is this safe? even though the inmates incarcerated there have allegedly committed crimes and therefore have been punished that does not mean that their lives should be put in danger by these “sores”. do the officals at the jail have any idea what is causing this outbreak, is it over, and what are the chances that it could and will return
Darryl Broude // Apr 28, 2011 at 1:24 am
You gotta love jail! You know, the food, the friends, all the free things LC In. jail has to offer. I was there for 52 days around Christmas 2009. Stay clean with life and you won’t have to worry about the stories you read. Yea, they’re true! They starve you, they pack you in with 50 other guys, wake you up whenever they want, etc. The only guarantee you have is that the lights will go off at 11:30pm and come on at 4:30am. No guarantees on food, phone, water…NOTHING! It’s jail….what do you want, the Hilton. Get your butt in trouble and check it out sometime. I think everyone should stay a little while. We’d have a better world.
Carl // Nov 25, 2011 at 7:07 am
I was an inmate at the Lake County Jail in November 2011 and its dirty but what do you expect? And I actually got a sore in my mouth. It stayed for a couple days on the roof of my mouth but then it went away. I wasn’t suprised because of the dirtyness. The overcrowding is another issue. I was packed in a room with at least 40 guys. I guess that you have to eat the food because what eles are you gonna do???
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