Articles by Alex Sakariassen

Efforts to Keep COVID-19 Out of Montana Prisons Fuels Outbreaks in County Jails

Loaded on Nov. 1, 2020 by Alex Sakariassen published in Prison Legal News November, 2020, page 28

Filed under: Contagious Disease -- Misc., COVID-19, Failure to Protect (General). Location: Montana.

by Alex Sakariassen, Kaiser Health News, September 29, 2020

When Joshua Martz tested positive for COVID-19 this summer in a Montana jail, guards moved him and nine other inmates with the disease into a pod so cramped that some slept on mattresses on the floor.

Martz, 44, said he suffered ...