January 26 — ISCI Captain Gibney has informed Unit 14 residents that an individual who recently passed through the unit is exhibiting symptoms that require testing for tuberculosis.
All non-essential movements from Unit 14 have been canceled for a minimum of 72 hours as a precautionary measure until the test results return. This includes movements for education, work, chapel and visitation.
Moves to the prison pharmacy and cafeteria during meal times will continue, with Unit 14 residents retrieving their meals behind the rest of the facility.
Residents of Unit 14 will also continue to have access to the unit’s outside rec yard.
ISCI management has yet to indicate whether those who encourage remaining cool throughout the quarantine will be allowed to order Kentucky Fried Chicken or pizza.
[Updated 1/27/2024]
P.S. Don’t panic, but remember when in April, May, June and November 2022’s issues of First Amend This! I presented concerns of how Centurion’s medical staff was failing to review our tuberculosis test results, and then falsely documenting the opposite in our medical records?
And do you also remember when in early 2019–the year that COVID hit–I presented the Texas Commission of Minimum Jail Standards, the Eagle Pass Health Department, the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, and the Center of Disease Control and Prevention with concerns of how GEO Group’s sanitation practices could easily fuel a pandemic? (See: Battle For Dishsoap At Eagle Pass, Violations of Texas Minimum Jail Standards.)
Interesting, or…?