Disability Right Oregon, the Oregon P&A, wrote a letter to the Sheriff’s office asking for the adoption of the following protective steps:
- Reduce jail population.
- Adequate cell and personal hygiene for inmates and staff.
- Consider reserving a quarantine unit for vulnerable inmates.
- Conduct routine screening of staff before and after each shift begins.
- Engage in planning with your local hospital.
- Expand routine medical intake to evaluate new detainees for possible coronavirus.
- Avoid using large, communal detention cells, overfull cells, and dormitories.
- Minimize transportation to court.
- Educate staff and inmates about the importance of good hygiene.
- Ensure routine assessment of inmate condition.
- Eliminate medical co-‐pays and fees for medical communications.
- Ask for and make public medical contractor plans related to COVID-19.
- Collect data.
- Cultural Specificity.
