Ohio prisoner released from Marion Correctional minutes after learning he's COVID-19 positive

Author: Brian Dugger
Published: 4:50 PM EDT April 23, 2020
Updated: 6:22 PM EDT April 23, 2020


"One of the sergeants said, 'You don't know?' He didn't know what was going on," Nico says. "They walked away and came back and said all you guys tested positive, so good luck."

Nico's mom, Kelli Gulick, is emotional about her son being pushed out the door - no paperwork and no medical advice about what to do next.

"I thank God that he's released, but how do you do that to someone? A human being," she asks.
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Last Edited by Nine's - IN MEMORIAM on 04/23/2020 08:27 PM

In case someone cares.

Why release these people???

Throw them in administrative segregation, the original quarantine lockdown.

What the absolute fook.

P.s. is the mother now forced to self quarantine? After the hug and smooch?

This is where I live

cheaper to release the sick ones. prison won't have to foot the bill.

some people tested positive months ago are fine today

So they can spread it.

Christ.. good luck. Between the heroin the idiocy of the county/town dating back to mean ass uneducated blue colar awful ppl coming to the area to work as slaves at the steam shovel factory, good luck, honestly, hope you're able to move out. I did consulting for a company downtown, completely fucked up town, I've lived in atlants and houston among other places but never felt the urge to carry being around a whole towns worth of poor trashy people who had completely given up on life and give zero fucks because they know their lives are shit and meaningless.

In a radio interview, the local sheriff where I live said they don't allow prisoners to be placed in the jail until they are certified "fit for confinement." He didn't say what they did with the ones who aren't fit for confinement.

“He was serving time for aggravated assault and drug offenses.”

So this drug offender, who apparently has a history of physically harming or attempting to harm other people, is now roaming the countryside while positive for coronavirus.

Lovely.

“Nico was tested a week ago and feels better than he has entire life, he says.”

I wonder how the person or persons against which he committed aggravated assault are feeling.

Why quarantine criminals when you can toss them out into the public and help spread the virus?

Ohio prisoners on their own after release from coronavirus

Kevin Cherry left prison this month facing more than the normal re-entry struggles.

Cherry, who was incarcerated for a year at the Marion Correctional Institution, the Ohio prison that is now the largest known hot spot of coronavirus infections in the U.S., was released April 11 but three days later tested positive for COVID-19, according to medical records he sent to the Marion Star newspaper.

Now, worried about the health and safety of his friends and family members, he says he has placed himself under quarantine at a hotel in Akron, his hometown.

When asked Monday about what precautions the state is taking to prevent prisoners released from prison from infecting others in their communities, Gov. Mike DeWine was short on details.

DeWine previously said the prisoners granted early release would be screened for COVID-19 before they leave prison. If positive, they would not be released. But that’s not the case for inmates whose prison time is up.

“They have every right to leave if their prison sentence has expired, and we have no way of holding them,” DeWine said.

He did not offer any ways the state was helping released prisoners self-quarantine.

On Tuesday, DeWine said he is concerned for the prison staff and their families and that the state would offer to pay for correctional staff members to stay in hotels.

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of course not because this is all bullshit

this is what they do in every nation right before the shitshow starts, let all the prisoners out

The Marion prison is now by far the nation's top hot spot for the coronavirus, a compilation by the New York Times shows. Because of the prison spike, Marion County's overall infection rate of 3,172 per 100,000 residents also is the highest in the country.

The Marion totals are inflated because tests were administered widely in the prison, while testing is much less widespread across the country.

Ohio's prison coronavirus outbreak is being closely monitored by federal authorities, Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, said Sunday on CBS' "Face The Nation."

DeWine announced last week that he will seek the early release of 167 inmates, most of whom are serving time in minimum-security prisons throughout the state.

"We do not intend to have a wholesale – everybody in certain category comes out. We are trying to do this very thoughtfully, at the same time doing everything we can to protect the prisoners and the employees who work there," DeWine said. "But prisons present, as Dr. (Amy) Acton has said, a very difficult situation."
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Good question. I don't know the answer, but it's probably not likely.

Marion is Maximum Security. I recall it used to be one of the highest security, until the supermax prisons were built.

I had thought they were releasing people early from there with Covid positive tests. If it's just because their term is up, of course they have to be released.

What happens to the guy he hugged just before saying he was positive for Covid?

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They need to be quarantined after release for 21 days at least. Also would give social workers time to get some stuff set up for them. the old have a good one in the middle of this is asking for more crime and violence

This.


However there are only a few crimes anyone should ever be in jail for:

rape. not date rape that should be house arrest and bracelet.

murder. not self defense or going after someone who has raped your child. real bloody cold calculated murder.

exploitation of citizens, mainly a politicians crime. slavery of citizens. mainly a politicians crime. abuse of power, corruption, selling out your nation to say, China, mainly a politicians crimes, and deep state.

infecting people with virus's and murdering people. politicians, deep state, the filthy maggots of the universe like fauci, gates, soros.



most people in prison shouldn't be there and the people who need prison aren't.

Hope you're away from the worst of mess. I'm in Ohio and Marion seemed like quite a drive. All of a sudden it doesn't feel that far. Shivers. Seems like it's going to create a real mess. Hope for warm weather.

Oh for fucks sake! Great..I can't believe that out of all the towns and cities in the US....

For sure. Cheaper for them. Doesn't do much for those on the outside who will get it from them and not have the state to pay for it.

Last Edited by Nine's - IN MEMORIAM on 04/24/2020 05:23 PM

they are preventing the spread inside the prison

Link at end leads to an article worth reading.

Prison safety amid coronavirus outbreak frightens Akron inmates’ families
By Amanda Garrett
Beacon Journal
Posted at 6:04 PM
Updated at 10:17 PM

Two Akron women who live on opposite sides of the city share the same worry: Their sons’ safety as COVID-19 spreads through Ohio’s prisons.

Kathy Cullison, of Firestone Park, has a son at Marion Correctional Institution, where widespread testing has revealed that more than 2,000 inmates, more than 80% of those locked up, have COVID-19.

Teresa Rogers, who lives in West Akron, has a son at Richland Correctional Institution, where so far there have been no inmates who have tested positive.

Neither woman, both Democrats, voted for Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. But each now praise the 73-year-old Republican for his swift action and clear talk on the pandemic.

“I did not like him, but I was wrong. He’s doing a fabulous job,” Cullison said.

Rogers said she “was very proud of DeWine” and most of his actions to protect Ohioans amid the pandemic.

But the two Akron women split decisively on DeWine and the state of Ohio’s handling of prisons amid the pandemic.

“Prisons are in the limelight now. They’re not going to screw that up,” said Cullison, adding that she is encouraged by how much confidence DeWine has expressed in Annette M. Chambers-Smith, the first female director of Ohio’s prisons.

Rogers wants Chambers-Smith fired.

“If she can’t effectively do her job, she needs to go,” said Rogers, who is among a handful of Ohioans who have organized a protest in Columbus on Friday calling for the mass release of Ohio inmates.

The group calls itself Ohio Prisoners Justice League (OPJL).

“We all want our loved ones to be safe and healthy,” a digital flier for the group’s Friday protest says. “In this together means we are ALL in, for ALL of us. No exceptions.”

Rogers said she is frustrated the state has no plan, or has not revealed a comprehensive plan to protect inmates who live in overcrowded prisons with no way to social distance.

Friday’s OPJL protest will follow social distancing guidelines and happen in a moving caravan of vehicles that will pass by the Ohio Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Ohio Statehouse.

The group is calling on Ohio to release nearly half its prison inmates next month, “20K in May.”
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That thought does cross a persons mind, doesn't it? It's understandable that they'd want to limit the prisoners and those caring for them, and it is supposedly a compassionate move toward them, but the time to have done that was before the majority of the prison had the virus.

also on the ohio covid dashboard the numbers for Marion have been wacky and not reported then they change. The better not let them all out with the covid. set up something seperate but doing so is going to spread covid and crime. already the "youths" have caused problems since being put back on the street. already enough of that here

His family needs to get him on Coconut oil, lauric acid or monolaurin. It is very effective.

If they're going to release prisoners, they will infect alot of people.

But some things are very effective.