Wiscasset jail on lockdown after 27 test positive for COVID-19
Two Bridges Regional Jail is on lockdown and is diverting arrested individuals to other facilities after at least 27 people associated with the Wiscasset facility tested positive for COVID-19.
Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the outbreak Tuesday. The jail began universal testing for all inmates and staff after discovering the first few positive cases within the facility. All programming and non-essential services are suspended.
So far, 24 inmates, two jail staff members and one contractor have tested positive for COVID-19. There are 72 inmates at the jail and 41 employees who work there, according to Correctional Administrator James Bailey.
This is the first outbreak or more than two cases at a time at the jail since the coronavirus pandemic reached Maine in March 2020, Bailey said.
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(Portland Press Herald)