VICE COVID PRISONS
Prisoners Keep Dying of COVID While ‘Compassionate Releases’ Stall in Court
At least 54 federal prisoners have died from COVID-19 after having a compassionate release request denied or left pending.
North Carolina Claims Prisoners Who Died of COVID Didn't Die of COVID
A VICE News investigation in partnership with North Carolina Health News found this undercount is likely not unique to North Carolina, and could be happening in dozens of states across the country.
COVID-19 Devastated Prisons. Now Some Inside Don’t Want the Vaccine.
Staff and prisoners are refusing the COVID-19 vaccine at alarming rates, meaning U.S. prisons could continue to spread the disease.
Federal Prisons Keep Turning Into COVID Nightmares: 'Everyone Looks Like Death'
With at least 229 prisoners and 12 staffers currently infected, Fort Dix has the most severe outbreak in the federal Bureau of Prisons.
A Super-Spreader Jail Keeps Sparking COVID Outbreaks Across the U.S.
A "hillbilly county jail" in Oklahoma has been linked to multiple coronavirus hot spots in the federal Bureau of Prisons.
'Man Down!': Inside the Deadly COVID-19 Outbreak at San Quentin
How a massive outbreak at California's San Quentin State Prison spread to death row, killing a dozen condemned prisoners.
'Con Air' Is Spreading COVID-19 All Over the U.S. Prison System
Whistleblowers say dozens of prisoners have tested positive for COVID-19 after being moved between jails and federal prisons due to a lack of safeguards in the Justice Department.
‘I Begged Them To Let Me Die’: How Federal Prisons Became Coronavirus Death Traps
Prisons quarantined sick and healthy inmates together and continued moving prisoners and staff around facilities as the outbreak spread.
A Federal Prison Staffer Has Died of COVID-19
The Bureau of Prisons has recorded at least 71 inmate deaths during the pandemic and more than 5,000 infections — but does not currently acknowledge any staff deaths.
Inside the Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak at Oakdale Federal Prison
“I just feel like we were all let down,” said one prisoner. At least 39 staff and 113 inmates have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a staff source.
EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Warned of Coronavirus Danger in Prison Where a Woman Just Died After Giving Birth
A staffer at a federal prison in Texas described looming “catastrophe” after 30-year-old Andrea Circle Bear gave birth while on a ventilator.
Federal Prison Staff Say the Government Is ‘Getting Hustled’ with Bogus Coronavirus Masks
“The quality is terrible,” said one federal prison staffer of the KN95 he received. “I don’t even know where they got ’em from.”